Theme and inspiration - a Russian photograph and two Russian paintings.

The Shower, by Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich, 1935.

After the Battle, by Aleksandr Deyneka, 1937-42.

After the Battle, by Georgy Gurianov, before 2013.

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Boris Vsevolodovich Ignatovich (4 April 1899, Slutsk - 4 April 1976, Moscow), Russian photographer, photojournalist, and cinematographer. He was a pioneer of Soviet avant-garde photography in the 1920s and 1930s, one of the first photojournalists in the USSR, and one of the most significant artists of the Soviet era.

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (20 May 1899, Kursk - 12 June 1969, Moscow), Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. He was regarded as one of the most important Russian modernist figurative painters of the first half of the 20th century.

Georgy Konstantinovich Gurianov (27 February 1961, Leningrad - July 20, 2013, Saint Petersburg), "a cult figure in the Leningrad underground scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Originally the drummer in the rock group Kino [...] he became a full-time artist and member of the two most important art movements to emerge at the end of the Soviet Union: the New Artists and the New Academy. The New Academicians sought to restore the figurative in contemporary art and a return to the Classical ideals of beauty, allowing them to explore, more or less openly, androgyny and homoeroticism in art." - Sotheby's