Size: 119.5×105.5cm./47×41.5inch.
Weight: 4370gr./154.1oz.
Year: 1987
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Oil Painting by M. Hegadüs 1987. The painting is called:”Friendship Of People”. Also known as: Friendship Of The Nations. The painting hung in the Town Hall of Szolnok, Hungary until the collapse of the Soviet Union and then disappeared into a basement and only now has it reappeared.
Original is by Stepan Mikhailovich Karpov from 1924 and can be seen in the State Historical Museum, Moscow. This copy was made by order of the municipality in 1987 for the Town Hall. The nationalities shown are: Caucasian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Byelorussian, as representatives of all Soviet republics. Great Propaganda painting. These kind of paintings are hard to find, much was lost after the fall of the Soviet Union. It is painted on canvas which consists of several pieces and has its original frame. Of course there are spots, scratches, drought cracks and other damage. Painting preferably to be picked up, but can also be removed from the frame and sent in a tube.