Dramatic Soviet-era oil painting of a World War II naval battle. Stormy seas, warships, and red-starred aircraft create a cinematic scene of patriotic struggle and victory.
Steel in the sky, fire on the sea - this is not peace, but memory burning in brushstroke and wave.

Original oil on canvas "Sea battle"
Ukrainian artist Leonid Shilov
Size: 29.5x37.5 or 11.5x14.5"
Size framed: 32.5x40.5 cm or 13x16"
Signed
Framed
1979

About the artist:
Leonid Shilov was born in 1943 in Mykolaiv.  Studied at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.  During the times of the USSR he worked in the genre of socialist realism, but after Ukraine gained its independence he moved to modernism and symbolism.