Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka

Acquired directly from the artist in 1966

Moscow, Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka. Zhivopis', skul'ptura, grafika. Vystavka proizvedenii k 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, 1989

I.Nenarokomova, 'Lyublyu bol'shie plany...'. Khudozhnik Aleksandr Deineka, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1987, p.183 illustrated
V.Sysoev, Deineka: Paintings, Graphic Works, Sculptures, Mosaics, Excerpts from the Artist's Writings, Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1982, no.333, illustrated pl.240
Exhibition catalogue Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka. Zhivopis', skul'ptura, grafika. Vystavka proizvedenii k 90-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya, Moscow: Sovetskii khudozhnik, 1989, p.55 listed

There is a small horizontal tear two centimetres long to the centre of the right hand edge. The lower edge of the sheet is perforated. There are creases across the upper edge, the top right corner and a few light creases in places elsewhere. The sheet has discoloured, is slightly undulated in places and has a few flecks of surface dirt. Held in a simple black wooden frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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Speed, dynamism and the onset of the motorized age are recurring themes of Deineka’s work. From the 1930s onwards his landscapes juxtapose the mechanical with the natural, whether planes travelling over fields, or trains and cars through woods. The gnarled trunks and inky green canopies of the avenue and the chestnut trees in the present work bear comparison to his 1935 watercolour, The Seine Embankment, (fig.2) suggesting the present view may also have been painted in Western Europe. Having been awarded the prestigious title of 'People's Artist of the USSR' in 1963, Deineka was able to travel extensively through Europe in the 1960s, to France, Czechoslovakia, Germany and Italy, where he sketched and worked, mostly in watercolour.