- Year
- 1980
- Technique
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55×83 cm
- Status
- In the Artist's Estate
This painting belongs to a group of works inspired not by distant memory, but by lived experience. Maltsev repeatedly visited the village of Ivanivka with his sons, observing everyday rural life - grazing cattle, open fields, and the quiet rhythm of rural work.
The scene is free from drama or nostalgia. Instead, the artist focuses on the natural harmony between people, animals, and land. The warm earth tones and broad painterly strokes convey a sense of fullness and continuity, where life unfolds through simple, recurring actions.
Here, the pasture becomes a space of presence - a moment in which the artist records not history, but the living beauty of ordinary existence.
