Spring Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1955) (Russian: Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1955 года) become one of the important Soviet Art Exhibition of 1955 and middle of 1950s at whole. The Exhibition took place in Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls on Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38.
History and Organization
Exhibition was opened on 7, July. The Department of Art and Crafts has been opened on 10, June. Organization and preparation of Exhibition was engaged specially formed Exhibition Committee which consisted of 23 the most authoritative art-experts headed by Yaroslav Nikolaev. It was published Catalog of the exhibition.[1] In total, was exhibited almost 630 works of art from 192 painters, sculptors, graphic artists, masters of art and crafts.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 13 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 37 artists. There were Evgenia Antipova, Anatoli Kaplan, Anna Kostrova, Alexei Pakhomov, Varlen Pen, Alexander Vedernikov, Georgy Vereysky, Vasily Zvontsov, and others.
Contributed Artworks
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1954–1955 years. They were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.[3]
Portrait was presented of "Natasha" by Irina Baldina, "Portrait of chemist Monastyrsky" by Solomon Epshtein, "Old Man in White dress", "Korean Old Man in winter dress", "A Head of Korean girl", "Grandfather of Kim Il Sung", "Interpreter - Chinese girl" by Varlen Pen, "Portrait of artist Kremer" by Lev Russov, "Portrait of Lena" by Yuri Tulin, "Portrait of artist Veniamin Kremer" by Lev Russov, "Self-Portrait" by Gleb Verner, and some others.[5]
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.6-7, 279. ISBN5-901724-21-6, ISBN978-5-901724-21-7
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1954 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1954.
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
^Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
^Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т. 1-4.. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
^Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Том 5. 1954—1958 годы. М., Советский художник, 1981. С.142-143.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.390, 414, 441.
Sources
Весенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников. 1955 год. Каталог. Л., ЛОСХ, 1956.
Выставки советского изобразительного искусства. Справочник. Т.5. 1954—1958 годы. М., Советский художник, 1981. C.142-143.
Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1980.
Художники народов СССР. Биографический словарь. Т.1-4. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
Справочник членов Союза художников СССР. Т.1,2. М., Советский художник, 1979.
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