Show all images on one page	#006021 Title: Silence Artist: Anokhin Pavel Size: 12.5x9x2.5 Size (inches): 5x3.5x1 Price : $2750 SOLD!

The Top 10 Fedoskino artist Pavel Anokhin has created this exquisite work. His otherworld style and subtle palette are as unmistakable as they are stunning. His approach to miniature painting is philosophical and he puts his thoughts behind every work or quite often he is finding somebody's else lyrics, like we will find out on this work! He prefers to create his own themes and scenes which he calls "dreams about the beautiful".
This box shows two ladies who has fluffy blades of grass in their hands and a large butterfly is sit on both of those blades. The whole composition looks very stylish and contrasting on the black background.
The work is called "Silentium" and it is written in Latin language, but this word has several meaning. First, of course, silence. Second-is quite, rest and the third - keep the secret...
In this work Pavel Anokhin applied a unique technique of mother-of-pearl inlaying. This beautiful effect was achieved by cutting out each tile from a separate nacre shell, and giving it a form; then each tile was glued to the box's body manually. Using such a complicated technique of mother-of-pearl inlay, the artist creates the wings of a butterfly with a rich variety of tones.
The two young ladies were painted very precisely and detailed, the painting is going to the side of the box.
Along the edges of the lid Anokhin wrote the lyrics of talented poet Iosif Mandel'shtam:

She is not born yet,
She is a music and a word,
And this is why she is an inviolable connection
of everything alive...

The box is constructed out of paper-mache. Black (very deeply look) lacquer covers the exterior and cream-white lacquer covers the interior of the box. On the front side of the box, the small golden metal clip is attached - it is the imitation of a lock. The lid is hinged at top, and the box rests on four small metal clips used as legs. The work is signed by Pavel Anokhin just over the depicted scene and dated.