The picture of the famous Soviet artist Alexander Deineka "Behind the Curtain" was sold at the auction MacDougall's for $ 3.5 million - a record for the art of the Soviet period.

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The record cost is attributed to the atypical nature of the canvas for the author: the USSR People's Artist, Hero of Socialist Labor, the Lenin Prize winner mostly depicted collective farmers, milkmaids, athletes, workers, in general, respectable citizens of the USSR engaged in socially useful labor and conquest of new heights.

A portrait of a naked girl is much more human and chamber.

Alexander Deineka "Behind the Curtain" Among other works by Alexander Deineka in the 1930s - "Mercenary Invaders", "Mother", "Unemployed in Berlin", "Farmer on a bicycle".

Alexander Deineka "Farmer on a bicycle" "He often wrote nude, but it was the Soviet Dolce Vita - idealized muscular bodies, joyful faces," the authors of the public.

Alexander Deineka "Relay over the ring" "Most likely," Behind the curtain "depicts favorite at the time model Deineki - 17-year-old swimmer Lusya Vtorov, future champion of the USSR," - suggested the authors of the public.

As reported by the "Observer", at the auction Sotheby's picture of Kazimir Malevich sold for 21.2 million dollars.

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