Pyzhova Alevtina Dmitrievna, "Dragon". 2000s. Plywood, oil.
Dimensions: 30 х 34 сm.
Slight deformation of the base on the right side.
There is an inscription in pencil "Dragon" overleaf [presumably, аuthor's].
The plot refers to the image of the "Whore of Babylon" in Christian art (Revelation 17:1-2): "saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, full of blasphemous names, with seven heads and ten horns."
The girl herself is completely naked, pacified, majestically sits on a dragon.
The picture is ornamental, decorative, made in local colors - which is typical for the artist's work.
Artist: Pyzhova Alevtina Dmitrievna (year of birth 1936) is a Russian artist of naive art, who became popular in 2000s.
А.D. Pyzhova was engaged in creativity all her life: she painted trays, sewed patchwork quilts, carved figurines. At the same time she worked in the house management. She took up painting in 1991. She made her own water-based paints until she switched to oils in 2002. She gained fame through a television competition for self-taught artists organized by Xenia Bohemskaya, and began to exhibit regularly since 1999.
The main storyline in the works is love, erotic.