Show all images on one page	#004312 Title: Snow Queen Artist: Molodkin Nikolay Size: 23x15.5x7 Size (inches): 9x6x2.75 Price : $1350 SOLD!

This large, elegantly shaped box has been painted by Nikolay Molodkin. He is the youngest in the family of renowned Mstera artists but has own recognizable style of painting. Hans Christian Andersen's popular fairy tale "The Snow Queen" has been chosens as a theme for this work. Here we can see a recognizable moment from the tale. Kay was sledging down the ice-hill together with other children. Suddenly he saw the Snow Queen's luxuriant huge sledge pulled by magnificent white steeds. The Snow Queen whose festive attire was shining like diamonds offered the boy to take a ride inside her speedy sledge, the boy agreed, and nobody saw him since then.
The palette consists of Nikolay Molodkin's favorite yellow and blue tones. The brushwork is exquisite. The artist uses gold paint in subtle amounts to enhance the detailing in the clothing, landscape, and add some flair to the scene. This only works to make the already great depth, compositional flow, and colors that much more aesthetic in the overall distribution of visual brilliance in the scene.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the piece while a brilliant red lacquer completes the interior of the box. The edges of the lid and the box's sides are decorated with gold floral and foliage patterns. The lid is hinged from the top of the scene, and the box rests on legs. The work is signed with the artist's name, Mstera, the title and the year of 2008 on the lid's interior inside an original pattern painted in tempera paints.