Baikal Ferry 1953
Oil on canvas
50 x 95 cm
Signed and dated 16.4.1953 on reverse and
painted a month after Stalin's death
Provenance: John Barkes, UK from 1993, This was the first studio Barkes visited in St. Petersburg; Private collection, Melbourne
Soviet artist Leonid Baikov 1919-1994
Leonid Baikov (28 July 1919 – 17 June 1994) – Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists of the RSFSR, and a veteran of Great Patriotic war.
Leonid Petrovich Baikov was born July 28, 1919 in the city of Vyshny Volochyok of Tver province. His father, Peter Ivanovich worked as a carpenter, and mother Elizaveta Baikova (nee Koroleva) was a seamstress and worked in housekeeping. In 1927 the family moved to live in Leningrad. In 1933 he began studying at the Art Studio at the secondary school of Vasileostrovsky district. A year later he took part in city competition of young talents, after which he became the student of Leningrad Secondary Art School at the Russian Academy of Arts. His teachers were Soviet artists Vladimir Gorb and Alexander Debler.
Read more here Soviet Artists
Item #7405
Price: $6,500.00