FEDOR BOGORODSKY (1895-1959) Russian village in winter

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘F Bogorodsky /1914’ (lower right) watercolour and white bodycolour on paper 20.5 × 27.5 cm (à vue) Executed in 1914 Dated 1914, the present watercolour is a rare example of Fedor Bogorodsky’s early work, Executed when the artist was just nineteen years old. Dating from his formative period, it predates his studies at Vkhutemas and his subsequent association with the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR). Fedor Bogorodsky (1895–1959) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist and educator. Born in Nizhny Novgorod, he received his earliest artistic training under L. M. Diamant before moving to Moscow in 1914, where he studied painting and drawing while attending the Faculty of Law at Moscow University. From 1922 to 1924, he continued his artistic education at Vkhutemas under Abram Arkhipov. A member of AKhRR, Bogorodsky travelled to Germany and Italy between 1928 and 1930. He later became a professor at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1945 and was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts in 1947.