ARTIST: ATTRIBUTED TO Lev Serafimovich Kotlyarov (Russian, 1925 - 2005)
NAME: Three Nurses on Bench
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 30 inches / 60 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: 28 x 34 inches / 71 x 86 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
NAME VARIANTS: Leo Serafimovic Kotljarov
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR.Soviet artist, painter, teacher Kotlyarov Lev Serafimovich - Member of the Moscow Union of Artists since 1952.Born in the village of Ipatovo (now the Stavropol Territory). He studied at the Moscow secondary art school (1939-1945). Graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (1951) in the workshop of V. P. Efanov. The author of plot-thematic paintings.Lev Kotlyarov, as a student, collaborated with the magazines "Change", "Physical Culture and Sport", "Spark" and with the publishing houses "Young Guard" and "Detgiz". In addition to working in magazines, he illustrated fiction books.In the 1990s, Kotlyarov worked on the creation of large historical canvases and genre paintings on the themes of socialist reality. In the 1970s, he was repeatedly nominated as a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, but was not elected. Since 1973 - was a member of the bureau of the painting section and a delegate to a number of congresses of artists of the RSFSR and the USSR. Participant of many republican and all-Union art exhibitions (1952-1981).