Retrospective Exhibition "Leningrad painting of 1950–1980s" (Russian: Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950–1980-х годов) became one of the most notable event in the Saint Petersburg exhibition live of 1994.[1] The Exhibition took place in Exhibition Centre of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, located in the historical building on Bolshaya Morskaya st., 38. There were exhibited 83 art works from private collections of 43 important masters of the Leningrad School of Painting.[2]
History and Organization
Exhibition was opened on March 31, and worked up to April 16, 1994. Catalog was published.[3]
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1950-1980s. Some of them were exhibited before,[5][6][7] some paintings were shown in the first time. In general, the exhibition presented as works of famous masters of this genre, and the direction of development of Soviet painting in the works by Leningrad artists of the middle - second half of the twentieth century.
Portrait painting was represented by the works of "Portrait of Young Woman (T. Myasoedova)" by Piotr Belousov, "Portrait of sculptor Igor Krestovsky" by Piotr Buchkin, "Junior Sergeant" by Vladimir Chekalov, "Portrait of Sergei Ivanov" by Yuri Khukhrov, "Girl with red ribbon" by Samuil Nevelshtein, "Portrait of artist Igor Skorobogatov" by Lev Russov, and some others.[9]
^Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950-1980 годов. Каталог. СПб., Выставочный центр Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников, 1994.
^Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950-1980 годов. Каталог. СПб., Выставочный центр Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников, 1994.
^Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950-1980 годов. Каталог. СПб., Выставочный центр Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников, 1994.
^Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950-1980 годов. Каталог. СПб., Выставочный центр Санкт-Петербургского Союза художников, 1994.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.404, 422.
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Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.404, 422. ISBN5-901724-21-6, ISBN978-5-901724-21-7
Юбилейный справочник выпускников Санкт-Петербургского академического института живописи, скульптуры и архитектуры имени И. Е. Репина Российской Академии художеств. 1915—2005. СПб., Первоцвет, 2007.