Family Holiday Feodosia, 1962
Oil on card 24 x 33.5 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, Simferopol.....
Russian Oil Sketches
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
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The Artist 1958
Oil on board 31 x 26 cm Signed and dated Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist’s studio, Bobrusk, Belarusse, 1998 .....
Village Portrait Series c1955
Oil on board26 x 19 cmSignedProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's stuido, St. Petersburg $900.....
Hot Summer Day 1962
Oil on paper 28.5 x 49.5 cm Signed; also signed and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from.....
Bay of Finland 1990
Oil on board13 x 17 cmSigned
Portrait of G. B. Galoyan 1953
Oil on card 36 x 28.5 cm Signed
Study for Sketch Club, Royal College of Art 1944
Russian Oil on board 29.5 x 34 cm Signed and dated; also inscribed with title and date on reverse
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Lunch Break, The Fisheries in Kerch, Crimea 1978
Oil on board46.5 x 68.2 cmSigned; also signed on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....
Washing Day 1962
Oil on panel 32.3 x 22.7 cmSigned and dated Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....
Young Child 1968
Oil on board 29.5 x 23 cm Signed; also signed,c titled and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist.....
Navy Day 1963
Oil on canvas 48 x 69 cmSigned and dated Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists
Irises
Oil on board 48.5 x 48.5 cm Signed
Women Sorting Tobacco
Oil on board45.2 x 34.5 cmSignedProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, Simferopol
Women Workers’ Lunch Break
Oil on canvas on board32.8 x 47.5 cmSigned$1,850
Sketch for Evening 1979 (Singing in the Village)
Oil on card 26 x 34.5 cm Signed and dated; also inscribed on reverse Artists Union of St Petersburg, artist and teacher.....
Sorting Fruit 1954
Oil on canvas28 x 47 cmSignedProvenance: The artist’s studio in Simferopol, 2006 A sketch for the artist’s first Museum Acquisition .....
Silotka 1974
Oil 35 x 42.5 cm Signed and dated Provenance: the artist’s studio St Petersburg 1998
Harbour Pilot 1960
Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.Petersburg Oil on board 22.5 x 31.2 cm.....
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