NIKOLAÏ NOVIKOV (1922-2013) Summer

Lotto 440

3 5005 000

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘N. Novikov 65’ (lower right); signed, titled in Cyrillic and dated ‘N. Novikov/ 23 XI 66/ Leto’ (on the reverse) oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm painted in 1966 Nikolai Fyodorovich Novikov (1922 - 2013) - Soviet painter, graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute in 1949 (teacher Igor Emanuilovich Grabar, Sergei Vasilievich Gerasimov, N. Kh. Maximov, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky). Since 1949 member of the Moscow Union of Artists. During the USSR period, the name of Nikolai Fyodorovich Novikov was widely known thanks to such thematic paintings as ‘In a New House’, ‘Children of War’, ‘Let Them Enter’, ‘Brest Lives’, ‘Cranes’ depicting the hardships of war, the life of the Russian countryside, the life of peasants, but the artist also worked extensively in the genre of portraiture, still life and landscape. The artist's paintings are in the State Tretyakov Gallery and many others, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad: USA, Great Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Japan and others.

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