Viktor Sharanovich 1960
Oil on board 45.3 x 33.7 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio.....
At the end of the Soviet system the professional artists were left high and dry. They were given ownership of their apartments, and were left with the contents of their studios, a lifetime of paintings.
Apart from the unsold finished paintings, the studios were full of preparatory sketches. These immediate impressions of life by these highly trained artists were a revelation.
The finished, exhibited works had to be idealized to conform to Stalin's definition of Socialist Realism and, or all except a very few artists, this process took away all the spontaneity so apparent in the preparatory works.
www.leningradschool.com has a chronology of the Artists' Union of St Petersburg, with many of our aritsts prominent in the annual listing of exhibitions.
extract "Art in Russia" Letter from John Barkes, 2011
illustrated
Valeri Roslyakov Loading Nickel Ore, Yenisei River 1973
Oil on board 45.3 x 33.7 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio.....
Oil on card24 x 34.5 cmSigned and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from Matthew Cullerne Bown, author of.....
Oil on card 17 x 19.5 cm Signed and dated Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist’s studio, Bobrusk.....
Sketch for A Winter’s MorningOil on board 24 x 34 cm Signed, titled and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, bought from Natalya.....
Oil on board24 x 35 cmSigned and dated ‘62Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio.....
Oil on card49 x 35 cmSignedProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. PetersburgExhibited: Irina.....
Oil on card11.4 x 15.8 cmSignedProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. PetersburgExhibited: Paintings.....
Oil on canvas card 35 x 26.5 cm Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.Petersburg.....
Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. Petersburg Exhibited: Irina Kovaleva, Bridget McDonnell Gallery, 1998 Oil on.....
Oil on canvas40 x 40 cmProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. PetersburgExhibited: Four.....
Oil on paper 20 x 20 cmSigned Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio.....
Oil on card29 x 50 cmSigned and dated; also signed and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the.....
Oil on card35 x 24 cmSigned and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist's studio, St. Petersburg$1,250.....
Oil on card 12.3 x 17 cm Signed and dated Provenance: Purchased from the artistBobrusk, Belarus, May 1998; John Barkesborn.....
Oil on board15 x 15.7 cm
Oil on card 13 x 17 cm
Oil on card18 x 15.5 cmProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. Petersburg .....
Provenance: John Barkes, bought from the artist Oil on board 35 x 25 cm Signed
Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. Petersburg Oil on board23.2 x 33.3 cm Signed.....
Oil and pencil 20.3 x 27.7 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London$750 framed
Watercolour 21 x 19 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.Petersburg
Oil on board 35 x 43 cm Signed and dated; also signed, titled and dated on reverse
Oil on board43 x 22.7 cmSigned, titled and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the.....
Oil on board50 x 40 cmSigned; also titled on a label on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from Roy Miles.....
Oil on board 25 x 40 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....