Leonid Krivitski

1932 - 2015

Forest Track 1960

Oil on card
17 x 26 cm
Signed on reverse
Provenance: John Barkes, London, purchased from the artist in his St. Petersburg studio, 1995

1932-2015

Born in Elizavetgrad, Ukraine, Leonid Krivitski studied at the Repin Institute until 1959, then as a post graduate student until 1962. His works were included in the important show Soviet Russia, Moscow 1960. He was a prominent contributor to the socialist realism movement of the 1960s. A well known and respected artist. Matthew Cullerne Brown, The Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Painters, 1900-1980, Izomar Limited, 1998, London. p170

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