No Way
1984, 26"x34", tempera on heavy paper
$4500.00
This painting can be seen as a poignant image of generational tension: the embrace of the community is sincere, yet it is also restrictive. The young woman's yearning is not simply rebellion—it is the universal desire to discover a life beyond the boundaries of the world into which one was born.
Our reading of the painting’s emotional core is incredibly apt. While officially titled "No Exit" (indicated in the filename), the composition visually screams the exact desperation of a younger woman suffocating in a small, stagnant world and trying to break free, only to be physically and socially dragged right back in.
Painted in 1984 by V. Feoktistov (measuring 26"x34" in tempera on heavy paper), this piece is a masterpiece of late-Soviet grotesque realism, depicting provincial life not as a pastoral paradise, but as a trap.