Samovar 1980
Oil on canvas94.5 x 73 cmSigned and dated; also titled on reverse Valeria Larina 1926-2008...
Valeria Larina
1926 - 2008
In 1946, Valeria Larina entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. There she studied under Piotr Belousov, Ivan Stepashkin, Alexander Zaytsev.
In 1953, Valeria Larina graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of painting in Boris Ioganson workshop, together with Mark Klionsky, Leonid Kabachek, Izzat Klychev, Konstantin Molteninov, Vladimir Seleznev, Nikolai Galakhov, and other young artists. Her graduated work was genre painting named "Young Shipbuilders".[3]
Since 1953, Valeria Larina has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and sketches from the life. It became the leading genre portrait of a contemporary. In the 1950s she was most famous for her series of expressive portraits of steel-makers and workers from Kirov plant in Leningrad. Later she painted mainly portraits of females and etudes done from nature.
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Feti, Leningrad 1944
Oil on canvas52 x 42 cmSigned; also signed, titled and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist.....
Neva Frozen, St Petersburg 1979
Oil on board50 x 35 cmSigned and dated; also signed, dated and inscribed Neva on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from.....
The Dye Factory
Oil on board $1,450
Sketching in the Country 1963
Oil on card35 x 24 cmSigned; also signed and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist.....
The Studio
Oil on board $1,100
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Girl with Doll 1972
Oil on card50 x 35 cmSigned; also dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....
Study, Kirovski Steelworker 1961
Oil on canvas 70 x 41 cm Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.....
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