Sculpture "Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa" 1937

The nearly 25-metre-tall statue "Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa" (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman) was created by the Latvian-born sculptor Vera Mukhina (1889–1953) for the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris in 1937 and subsequently transferred to Moscow. An example of the socialist realistic style the work depicts the ideal Soviet human being represented by the worker, who holds aloft a hammer, and the kolkhoz woman with a sickle that together form the hammer and sickle symbol.

Vera Mukhina (1889–1953), "Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa" (1937), colour photo, 1999, photographer: Adam Baker; source: wikimedia commons, http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Файл:Worker_and_Kolkhoznitsa.jpg.

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