Description
(auction original language)
Lot No: 129
Tatyana Nilova Yablonskaya (1917-1989)
Harvesting Wheat in The New Lands
Published Estimate:
€3000-4000
Price Realised:
€0
signed verso; also with exhibition stamp on reverse
oil on canvas
142 by 132cm., 56 by 52in.
Russia's main agricultural region extends from the Central district in European Russia, bordering Ukraine and Belarus, to western Siberia 3,000 miles to the east. Of the country's nearly 200 million hectares of agricultural land, roughly 120 million is planted to grow crops (chiefly grains, annual or perennial forages, sunflowers, potatoes, and vegetables) or temporary lying fallow. Wheat, a most important crop for Russia during the 1930s-1970s accounted for over half of its grain production with an average annual output of about 40 million tons.
