Show all images on one page	#006598 Title: The Evening Sound Artist: Anokhin Pavel Size: 11.5x8.5x2 Size (inches): 4.5x3.25x0.75 Price : $2450 SOLD!

This interesting composition was painted by the famous Fedoskino artist Pavel Anokhin. His style is unusual for Fedoskino School of miniature painting. To a great extent it is close to the style of surrealism. In painting and sculpture surrealism is one of the leading influences of the 20th century. In this century it also admired, and included in its exhibitions, works by the Italian Giorgio de Chirico, the Russian Marc Chagall, the Swiss Paul Klee, the French artists Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia, and the Spaniard Pablo Picasso. Surrealist painting exhibits great variety of content and technique. That of Salvador Dali, for example, consists of more or less a direct and photographic transcription of dreams.
The box shows a fisherman carrying the net full of fish. But it isn't ordinary fish. Each one has wings and can fly like birds. If you look at the composition attentively you'll see that not birds but fish is flying away through the hole in the net. In the background the artist paints a bird, a big fish with wings swimming in the sea, a woman and a man holding a bird-fish in his hands, and beautiful lilac clouds. Almost all area of the composition is studded with silver raindrops. The composition is painted mostly in gray and green tones.The box is showing a girl hunting with a scoop net for a dragonfly. The girl is flying...and we can see a butterfly sit on a body of a peacock, hiding from a girl.
The box is constructed out of paper-mache made in the village of Fedoskino. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. The composition has a painted frame. The box has a hinge to its top and rests on a flat bottom. It is signed and titled ("The Evening Sound") by the artist.