Photo
July 2024
Private collection
digital image
A digital image (2024) of a wall inside a wooden log house built more than 100 years ago. Rustam Halfin lived here in July 1990, when he was visiting his friend, the production designer V.P. Kostrin, at his dacha in Krasny Yar, Nizhny Novgorod region of the USSR. During this period, Rustam painted a large series of works of art (several dozen works) - graphics and sketches from nature. As of July 2024, the wall covering has been partially preserved. The picture shows a part of the wall preserved as it was in July 1990. Valery Kostrin recalls: "Rustam often lay on the couch and looked at the wall, which was full of potholes and uneven marks and considered them an "ОКОЕМ" and asked me not to plaster or whitewash the wall in any case..."
Attributed by the production designer Valery Kostin in 2024. Photographed by Ruslan Khalfin