A beautiful lacquer miniature painting on papier-mache, with two nice girls, one is dreamily telling something, the second one is listening, holding her breath.
The lacquer miniature is a traditional Russian folk craft, named after its original center Fedoskino, an old village near Moscow, widely known from the late 18th century.
The artists' proximity to folklore, promted the creation of highly popular images, village scenes, and girls in national costume, tea-parties, women's gathering and troika's rides.
The artists from Fedoskino painted in oils from the start, and achieve high standards of portrait painting.
The highly attractive fine works of Fedoskino art as caskets, panels, brooches and boxes of different form of size with miniature painting and gold ornament, are displayed in private collections and in the Museums all over the World.
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