Sergei Sergeevich Poskonin

Original canvas on its original stretcher. The canvas is buckling in the two left corners and there is a stretcher bar mark running along the bottom edge. There are frame abrasions at the edges with some minor associated paint loss. There are a few scattered areas of craquelure, for example between the legs of the woman in the pink headscarf and below the centre of the right edge. There is a light layer of surface dirt. Inspection under UV light reveals no apparent signs of retouching. Unframed.
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Sergei Poskonin grew to fame in the 1960s with his plein air paintings of contemporary life, and the construction workers of Medvedkovo – both male and female – were frequently the subject of his work while he was living in this newly-developed area of northern Moscow. By the end of the decade, women represented just over 50% of the Soviet workforce. A retrospective exhibition of Poskonin’s work was held in the Moscow Union of Artists in 2009.