This work represents a composition with several figures. In the center one c an see a figure of the head of the political department dressed in a greatcoat, a service hat and a soldier's blouse.
He is getting papers from out of his wide belt.
Behind him there stands a peasant with a pitchfork looking over the head's showlder at the papers. To the left, against the background of a large haystack there is a group of people. One of them - a man in a kepi and in a greenish T-shirt is standing with his back turned towards the spectator and reading a letter or some other document brought by the head of the political department.
Two other persons - a fairhaired peasant and a peasant woman in a red dress - are sitting on the ground. We see them also from their backs.
The right part of the composition represents the scene of a dinner. A woman standing on a wooden dais distributes the food. She holds out a plate to another woman standing to the
left on the ground. On the foreground, near the dais there two dining women sitting on the ground with the plates on their laps and a man in a yellow cap lying on his belly. On the background of the picture there are large haystacks nearly reaching the upper edge of the picture, and small figures of the peasants sitting nearby on the ground.
Name/Title
Akselrod, Head of a political department | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Settings
Unknown
Date
1935
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Artist/ Maker
Origin
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Period
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Period Detail
Collection
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Category
Material / Technique
The work is painted with thick brush strokes with no use of varnish.
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Measurements
Height
730mm.
Length
950mm.
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Subject
Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
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Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
Textual Content
Unknown |
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Shape / Form
Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Signature
Colophon
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Summary and Remarks
This work represents a variant of another work with the same title created by the artist in the 1935 for the Bielorussian Museum of the Revolution. During the bombing of Minsk in the 1941 the painting burned down. For the work on this picture the artist has used the compositions from his series "In the Steppe.(Jewish agricultural commune.)" created in the 1930-1931.
Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
1991 brought to Israel.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
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Full Name
Volume
Page
Type
Documenter
| M.Y. 5.1994
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Section Head
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Language Editor
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Donor
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Object Copyright
Yachilevich Family
Negative/Photo. No.



