Only print copy on canvas (original sold). Original antique pastel painting Soviet artist V.Kostenko.Cheerful girl friends on a snowy street.

Antique works / original painting
Conversation of girlfriends / Russian girls / Ancient pastel painting /
one of a kind / handmade

This painting was created in 1969.
Title: "Girlfriends"
Materials: sandpaper, pastel
Dimensions: 67 cm x 63 cm (26.37 "x 24.80")

This picture is very joyful. In the foreground are four joyful girls in national Russian shawls who talk joyfully. Behind them is a snowy street, people are walking along it. The houses on the street are yellowish, old, not very tall. The street is not very wide. Most likely it is a small city.
 It is clear that the girls are very happy about the first snow. The artist managed to capture them without undue sentimentality: a strong, ruddy girl in the center of the picture, looks openly and directly. She tells her friends something interesting and fun. To highlight the figures of the heroines, the author used intense color combinations. Bright shawls contrast with the background of white snow, and red and yellow shades in dresses make the images of girls bright. Children look funny and mischievous.

He needs a frame to hold it in place, but I will let the next owner decide which type of frame and which color will look better. I like these old paintings leaning against the walls because they really don't even need a frame to add to their interior style.

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Condition: good vintage condition. The photo is relevant. You can see the whole picture, edges, and corners. Please look carefully at the whole photo.
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About the artist:
Victoria Kostenko (1927 - 2015), an outstanding artist of the region of the Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine. She was a rare Soviet woman whose talent was astounded. It is noteworthy that she managed to get closer to patriarchal men who did not like women at all. Nevertheless, Victoria enjoyed great respect as a master artist and continued her career, despite her gender.

Victoria Kostenko - Ukrainian and Russian artist, painter, graphic artist. Born in 1927 in Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia. In 1949 she graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art College and continued her education in Estonia (the city of Tartu). Member of art exhibitions since 1956. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1971. Her works were acquired by the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum, the Kirovograd Gallery "Elisavetgrad" and private collectors from all over Europe.
Victoria Kostenko is included in the “Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Painting of the Twentieth Century, 1900–1980” by Matthew Callern Bown (p. 162).
One of Victoria's paintings "Portrait of a Boy" was sold at an auction in Moscow in 2012 for $ 8,294 https://artinvestment.ru/auctions/83440
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