War / Viina

Two-figure composition. Close-up on a dark brown background is a generational full-length image of a young woman in black clothes and a headscarf. Head in 3/4 reverse slightly tilted to the left. Oval face, open high forehead, straight thin eyebrows, upper eyelids closed. With both hands, he holds the lifeless body of a young man, whose head, in ¾ reverse to the left, lies on his right shoulder, facing the mountain with closed eyes and half-open mouth. His arms are hanging along his body, his legs are shifted to the right. He is dressed in a soldier's uniform and pants. In the lower right corner of the image (monogram): "MG-85". In the upper right corner in black paint: "Myznikov G.S. 120x90. 1985г.". On the stretcher sticker with the text: "The Union of Artists of the USSR, Directorate of Exhibitions, Department of Foreign Exhibitions. Myznikov "War". The canvas is damaged in four corners. Cracking of the paint layer on the nose, hands of the woman, forehead, left eye of the man, right and left in the upper background, below on the image of clothes.