Show all images on one page	#002040 Title: Tale of Golden Cockerel Artist: Dogadin Alexander Size: 18.5x18.5x4 Size (inches): 7.25x7.25x1.5 Price : $950 SOLD!

Alexander Dogadin is the creator of this brilliant work. Here he has chosen to depict various scenes in the development of the "Tale of Golden Cockerel". It is a story of Tsar Dadon who received from a magic astrologer a magic golden cockerel and in return for it promised to fulfill any of the astrologer's wishes. The cockerel crowed to warn the tsar of approaching danger, thus enabling him to assemble troops and rebuff the enemy attack. When the cockerel crowed again to alarm, the tsar sent his sons at the head of the troops in the direction from which danger threatened. When his sons didn't return, he set out with an army himself. Instead of an armed enemy he was met by the beautiful Shemakha Queen. She was the enemy of whom the cockerel had warned the tsar. The silly and lustful tsar didn't want to believe the cockerel and proposed marriage the Shemakha Queen in spite of the fact that it was obvious that she had killed his sons. In the end of the story the tsar is punished and killed because of his carelessness.
In the center of the composition there is Tsar Dadon's Kingdom, and to the left from it Tsar Dadon holds the magic golden cockerel in his hands. In the left upper bottom corner the artist has depicted the Shemakha Queen, while in the right upper corner he has painted the Fire Bird. In the bottom part of the composition Dogadin has drawn Tsar Dadon coming back to his native kingdom with his young beautiful wife, the Shemakha Queen.
Dogadin has filled the palette with bright colors, which work to complement each other with great efficiency. The oranges and the blues are the first to come into full view in this scene. Gold paint is used in subtle amounts to highlight the scene and add flair for the eye to grasp. Throughout the composition there is a great amount of movement in the landscape, and in each of the characters.
The box is made out of paper-mache made in Mstera. Black lacquer covers the exterior and red lacquer covers the interior of the box. Gold ornamentation highlighted with blue, red and orange tempera paints frames the composition and wraps around the sides of the box. This decoration is a beautiful accent to the painting and brings another aesthetic level to the piece. The box has a hinge above the composition and rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed and titled by the artist at the bottom of the composition in gold paints.