1889, St Petersburg — 1963, Leningrad
Chairwoman of a Village Soviet
1934
- Period Early 20th century
- CategoryPortrait
Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya actively worked with Vladimir Tatlin in the early 1920s. Between 1925 and 1935, Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya was the artistic editor of the magazines Woman Worker and Peasant Woman. She was therefore at the forefront of the formation of the new image of a Soviet woman. The artist created a whole series of portraits of “new women” — agitators, shock workers and collective farmwomen. Among them is a portrait of Daria Prokhorova, the chairwoman of the village council. In this painting, the social element was far more important than the external likeness. This female image is extremely typical of the Soviet painting of the 1930s.