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This copy was scanned from a two-page spread in "Ogonyok," 1952 #46 (7 Nov), pp. 16-17. It differs significantly from an earlier version in "Ogonyok," 1949, #18, frontispiece:
version in #18, 1949 | version in #46, 1952 (shown above) |
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blue, slate-like sky; some rough clouds to lower left | luminescent, golden, air-brushed sky: gold-green at top, gradually shifting to gold-orange at bottom. |
No saplings in front of field | saplings in front of field |
2 automobiles on left have no detail | Automobiles on left have some detail |
6 clearly-defined electric transmission towers | 5 more distant towers, less sharply defined |
Red factory building in right background | Vague buildings; also smokestack in right background |
Matthew Cullerne Bown (Art Under Stalin, Holmes & Meyer, New York, 1991) reprinted a version with a more impressionist sky, dappled with cheery blue, greenish, and purplish spots.