Nikolai Kormašov

This is a variant of probably the best-known painting by Nikolai Kormašov's: "Fishermen" (Estonian Art Museum). On the one hand, the artist here approaches the obligatory themes of the era - a simple person doing physical work -, but on the other hand, Kormašov often generalized the motives of his work at that time to an existential generalization. We see not a narrowly Soviet theme, but a broader issue of man and working, extracting what is necessary for living from nature without the help of machines, as well as a certain togetherness and solidarity. It is a masculine composition where Kormashov combines the expectations of the era with a certain archaic-religious charge. According to Sirje Helme, Nikolai Kormašov's best paintings were completed in the mid-1960s, which were also a rarity in the art scene here, such large-scale figural compositions were generally not dealt with here.

Available only on the auction, on 29th of October