Apple Offering
1986, 25"x32", original tempera on heavy paper
$4900.00
This 1986 painting by V. Feoktistov, titled "Apple Offering," is a 25"x32" tempera work on heavy paper. Rich with symbolic weight and psychological tension, the piece leans heavily into the surreal, desolate, and macabre elements of late-Soviet grotesque realism.
This painting is one of the most enigmatic. It combines realistic village life with dreamlike symbolism, making it feel less like a scene from everyday life and more like a visual parable. The emotional atmosphere is one of memory, temptation, mortality, and quiet resignation.
Behind them unfolds a gray provincial village filled with subtle symbolic episodes. Above everything floats an enormous bald head in the sky, transforming the landscape into something between reality and memory.
The perspective is intentionally compressed, making the foreground figures appear monumental while the village seems almost miniature.