Bidspirit auction | Igor Melnikov 10.5x12 O/B ”Favorite

Igor Melnikov 10.5x12 O/B ”Favorite Doll” - Igor Melnikov (Russia, b 1956) 10.5x12 , O/B , signed lower right , ”Favorite Doll” , Depicting: young girl with doll size as framed: 18.25 x 19.5, frame has inscriptions on all four sides, in faint Cyrillic text, original price paid $31,000 (partial bio) Most of the children in his paintings seem strangely motionless, as if they were indecisive in the world of adults when looking into the future, and their hats and scarves complement their timeless clothes. ”To wear something on your head” is a traditional symbol of reflections and ideas. After two years in the Soviet Army, he returned to Moscow, where he entered the Moscow Academy of Printing