Who painted “Relay race on the Garden Ring”?

“Relay race on the Garden Ring” was painted by Aleksandr Deyneka in 1947. Where to see it: Tretyakov Gallery.

Relay race on the Garden Ring — Aleksandr Deyneka

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Socialist Realism: confident, academic realism about happy workers, collective farms, leaders and Soviet daily life; Social Realism criticises society instead of celebrating it.

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

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