Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude dyed a darker brown

dyed a darker brown

gorgeous wood

and I find the hand-decorated lid both elegant and playful

and the turtle dove egg shows some surface cracking (seems it was never blown

Wonderful c. 1940s Soviet Folk Art Photo Portrait of a Young Soldier painting of nude dyed a darker brownI've been trying to find something written about folk art Soviet military snapshot portraits of this sort but have turned up nothing. There are other examples out there, which it seems most apt to describe as a form of trench art, since from what I've found they were limited to portraits of soldiers, who decorated the borders around their portraits, as here (those flourishes embedded in the print, not drawn on top.) I really love the effect, executed