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*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Worker portrait"
* ARTISTS: Besedin Sergei Fotievich
* SIZE: 66x60 cm/'25.98x23.62 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product
About the artist: Born on September 25 (October 8), 1901 in the village of Russkaya Lozovaya, now Dergachevsky district, Kharkov region. Graduated from the Kharkov Art Institute (1929). Teachers by profession - M. Sharonov, A. Kokel, S. Prokhorov. Painter, graphic artist, teacher. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. Realistic artist. Master of historical compositions of a narrative character and numerical psychological portraits of contemporaries and prominent cultural figures. In painting he adhered to the tonal system and developed the coloristic findings of Russian masters of the early twentieth century. Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine (1938). Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1970). Received state awards of the USSR. Member of the CPSU. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, medals and a Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR. He worked at the Kharkov Art Institute: teacher, 1944-48 - rector, 1948-60 - head of the department of drawing, 1960-91 - professor, head of the department of painting. In 1935 he was transferred to work in the personal creative workshop of N. Samokish, where he worked until 1941. Participated in exhibitions: republican (1932), all-Union (1939), personal - in the city of Kharkov (1972; 1996; 2001, retrospective). At the international exhibition of lithography in Vienna he received the second prize for the portrait of N. Ostrovsky (1962). Author of a number of articles published in the magazine "Banner": "Artist of Truth (about T. Shevchenko)" (1964, No. 3), "Unforgettable (about N. Samokish)" (1976, No. 10-12), "Sower of the Beautiful ( about VM Chernov) "(1977, No. 8) and others. Major works: painting - "Leniniana" (1927-75), "Zhukovsky at the bedside of the wounded Alexander Pushkin" (1937); portraits - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Academician M.S.Samokish (1939), People's Artist of the USSR I.O.Maryanenko (1947), artist M. Ashikhman (1947), "Natasha" (1949), writer Petr Pancha (1952), "The Collective Farm Girl" (1959), T. Shevchenko (1960), "V. I. Lenin and NK Krupskaya at an evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of TG Shevchenko in Krakow in 1914 "(1963 - 1964)," They saw Lenin "(1963); "IN. I. Lenin "(1957 - 1966), composer P. Gaidamaki (1976)," Self-portrait "(1979), professor F. Medvedev (1980)," Singers of the feat of arms. Greeks and students in the studio of N. Samokish "(1972-75); graphics - color lithographs dedicated to TG Shevchenko (1939 - 1961), a graphic suite about Panfilov's men (1943), a portrait of twice Hero of the Soviet Union S. Kovpak (1944), ?A. Pushkin in Ukraine "(1950)," Portrait of the artist V.F. Mironenko "," T. Shevchenko among cultural figures "(both - 1951)," P. I. Tchaikovsky in N. I. Lysenko "(1954), the series" Great Friendship "(1954)," Glinka in the Ukraine "(1957) and others. Works are kept in Art museums and galleries, Kiev Historical Museum, Kharkiv Historical Museum, Odessa Historical Museum, Kanev Historical Museum, Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum, Poltava Historical Museum, Lviv Historical Museum, Alushta Historical Museum, Almaty Historical Museum. Lived and worked in the city of Kharkov, died on July 22, 1996. He died on April 22, 1996.
Reserve: $1,725.00
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Oil painting Worker portrait Besedin Sergei Fotievich
Estimate $5,250-$7,500
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