The Child With Eggs / Anatola Soungouroff (1911-1982) / Oil On Canvas

Child with Eggs, Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled and countersigned on the reverse,

60 × 45 cm (unframed),
75 x 60 cm (framed).

This work by Anatola Soungouroff is firmly rooted in the 20th-century Russian figurative tradition, where the simplicity of the subject is imbued with a strong symbolic dimension. The child, wrapped in a deep red cloak, holds a bowl of eggs with gravity and restraint, embodying both the innocence and the early responsibility of the rural world. The palette, dominated by muted and controlled tones, highlights the expressive, frontal face of the model, while the deliberately understated background reinforces the psychological intensity of the scene. The direct and sensitive pictorial treatment testifies to a humanist perspective on childhood and the essential gestures of daily life.