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Swineherd game
Ryzhikova Nina- Technique
- Watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 22 × 23 cm
- Year
- 2016
A boy in a wide-brimmed hat plays at a table with a miniature red castle, a doll in an orange gown, and small toy trees.
- Style
- Decorative
- Mood
- Playful
- Themes
- Children · Fantasy · Architecture
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- Payment
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- Shipping
Economy: ~1 month
EMS: 7–10 days
- Packing
Over 100 cm: rolled in a tube
Smaller works: boxed canvas
- Returns
7-day return
Refund after inspection, excluding shipping fees
About this work
A boy wearing a broad blue hat and green neckerchief leans over a small table set with a toy red-and-turquoise castle complete with turrets, flags and a bird finial. Beside the castle stands a doll in a swirling orange gown with powdered white hair, flanked by two dark round-topped toy trees, while a yellow cloud hangs overhead and pink drapery frames the scene on either side like a stage curtain.
Bright flat washes of coral, turquoise and ochre are set against pale unpainted paper, giving the toy castle a jewel-like, storybook glow. Crisp outlines and simplified shapes lend the picture a decorative, illustrative charm, capturing a child absorbed in an imaginative game of make-believe.
