The Eternally Golden Bach

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia (Russia).

The artist turned to the image of great Bach repeatedly, coming up with such speaking appraisal names as “Hello, God! Hello Bach!”. By the time this portrait was created, the artist was already on the lists of “unreliable travel companions”, and most of her works were illustrations. In this work, we can clearly sense the author’s transition from analytical art to the special neo-modern and decorative symbolism. Experts also believe that here the artist was close to Surrealism, depicting the very authentic face of the composer and the golden angels. This was a favorite painting of the artist, which always hung in her apartment – Bach was kind of an animated creature, an interlocutor in a lonely old age, and she refused to sell it to the Russian Museum.