Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1962 (Russian: Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года) opened in State Russian Museum become one of the largest Art Exhibition of 1962 in the USSR.
History and Organization
For the organization and preparation of Exhibition was formed specially Exhibition Committee which consisted of 25 the most authoritative art-experts. Exhibition Catalog was published.[1] In total, the Exhibition displayed almost 600 works of art of painters, sculptors, graphics, artists of theater and cinema, masters of arts and crafts. At whole Exhibition attended over 350 artists of the Leningrad.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 41 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 86 artists.
Contributed Artworks
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1961-1962, also some earlier works. All 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.
Still life paintings were presented of "Wildflowers" by Evgenia Antipova, "Roses", "Still life with oranges", "Still life" by Olga Bogaevskaya, "Roses in Crystal vase", "Bird Cherry tree branches" by Vladimir Konashevich, "Apples and Pears", "Snowdrop flowers", "Yellow flowers" by Maya Kopitseva, "Still life" by Yaroslav Krestovsky, "Jasmine. Still life", "Sunflowers" by Lia Ostrova, "Still Life with Peaches", "Still life with Melon", "Still life with Bananas" by Genrikh Pavlovsky, "Baskets" by Nikolai Pozdneev, "Still life with fish", "Still life with quince" by Elena Skuin, "Larch branches" by Kim Slavin, "Still life" by Victor Teterin, "Still life with radish", "Flowers in white vase", "Still life with Bananas", "Still life with tomatoes", "Still life on the green table-cloth" by Alexander Vedernikov, "Still life" by Rostislav Vovkushevsky, and others.[6]
Acknowledgment
Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1962 was widely covered in press and in literature on Soviet fine art.[7][8][9]
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1962 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1962.
^Художники народов СССР. Биобиблиографический словарь. Т.1-4.. М., Искусство, 1970-1995.
^Хроника узловых событий художественной жизни России 1960-1980-х годов // Time for Change. The Art of 1960-1985 in the Soviet Union. Saint Petersburg, State Russian Museum, 2006.
^Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.394.
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