Kostenko Elena Mikhailovna (1926-2019)
Postmistress
1954
100 х 75,5 см
Oil on canvas

The artist belongs to the Leningrad school of painting. The favorite genre of the artist is portraits. She liked to portray the working professions: tailors, factory workers, postmen, agricultural workers and many others.
Portraits of contemporaries are a distinctive feature of the fine art of the USSR. Works of this genre are characterized by spirituality and sincerity of images, respect for any work and activity of man, belief in his high purpose