Oil on canvas, 39 x 39.5 cm. (2022)
The only painting from the series of anecdotes about Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt. Churchill is famous for traveling with a paintbox. Here the artist imagined that during the Yalta Conference, Churchill found a room and a model who posed nude for him. Peaking through the window, you can see the inquisitive expressions of two other heads of state. In effect, the painting boils down the Yalta conference and shows it for what it was: big states and their corporations cutting, dividing and conquering. The idea for this series comes from the artist's own life experience, when one of his relatives was imprisoned in Stalin's concentration camps for ten years for telling an anecdote. As no one wanted to tell the anecdote to a young Konstantin because they were afraid of persecution (or they forcibly forgot), the artist decided to recreate his own version of the anecdote.
White Steinway. Anecdote about Winston Churchill, by FDR
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