Flying a Red Flag 1956
Oil on card 11 x 16 cm Signed and dated Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist’s.....
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 except for 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
Village Home 1957
Oil on card 11.5 x 17 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio.....
Bus Stop, Yalta Market 1996
Oil on board15 x 35 cmSigned on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist’s studio, St. Petersburg, 2005
Sketch, Evening Festival 1998
Oil on board20 x 38 cmSigned on reverse and datedProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist’s studio, St. Petersburg.....
Winter 2004
Oil on panel25.5 x 36.5 cmSigned; also signed, titled and dated on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist.....
Nude Sketch, Repin Academy 1996
Oil on card15 x 13 cmSigned on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist’s studio, St. Petersburg
Evening 1960
Provenance: John Barkes, purchased from the artist in his St. Petersburg studio in 1995 Oil on card, 18 x 26.....
Sketch, Beach Huts, Yalta 1999
Provenance: John Barkes, bought from the artist Oil on card, 15 x 36 cm, Signed and dated on reverse
Petrograd Tramway 1962 Oil on board 17 x 23 cm Signed and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought.....
The Red Skirt 1960
Oil on board 38 x 36 cm The Red Skirt 1960 Oil on board 38 x 36 cm Signed; also.....
Village Girl 1965
Oil on card 35 x 25 cm Signed; also signed, titled and dated on reverse John Barkes, London, bought from.....
Summer Bunch 1964
Oil on canvas 45 x 34 cm Signed and dated on reverse
Spring Planting 1960s
Oil on card 24.5 x 35.5 cm Signed on reverse; also signed by the artist’s nephew, Yevgeny Bortnichuk, on reverse Provenance: Estate of.....
Natasha, Artists Daughter 1970
Oil on board 50 x 35 cm Signed
The Mosaic Worker
Oil on card 29.5 x 24 cm Signed, dated and titled on reverse
Rowers on the Lake 1961
Gouache and pastel on paper 21 x 36 cm Signed and dated Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....
Skier 1960
Oil on board32.5 x 47.5 cmSigned; also signed and titled on reverseProvenance: John Barkes, London$1,850
Alupka Crimea 1960s
Oil on paper 18 x 24.2 cm Signed and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's.....
Veteran Watching Victory Day Parade 1972
Provenance: Bought from the artist’s studio St Petersburg 1998; John Barkes, London Pastel 28 x 36 cm Signed and dated.....
The Park Bench
Oil on canvas 17 x 31 cm Signed on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist's family in the artist's.....
Workers on Collective Farm 1981
Oil on board50 x 70 cm Signed and titled on reverse Provenance: The artist’s studio until September 2006$1,500
Loading Nickel Ore, Yenisei River 1973
Oil on board 34 x 49 cm Signed and dated on reverse Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the.....
Horses and Haycart 1982
Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St. Petersburg Oil on card22 x 35.5 cmSigned; Signed.....
Nadezhda 1959
Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.Petersburg Oil on card 24.5 x 33.5 cm Signed and.....
Portrait of a Young Ossetian Woman 1957
Oil on card 30.2 x 22.5 cm Signed Provenance: John Barkes, London, bought from the artist in the artist's studio, St.Petersburg