Additional information
| Artist | Kugach |
|---|---|
| Country | Russian |
| Region | Soviet / CIS |
ArtistKugach, Yuri Petrovich
Artist Years1917-2013
Artist NationalityRussian
TitleSpring Sunset
Yearca. 19160
MediumPainting > Oil
DimensionsCanvas: 19 X 24 inches
Description
Oil on canvas, signed (in Cyrillic) lower left
Accession NumberRC1867
NotesSoviet Russian painter. Member of the USSR Union of Artists, People’s Artist of the USSR since 1977. Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, winner of the Stalin Prize of the USSR (1950). He studied at the art school “In Memory of 1905” in N.P. Krymov (1931-1936), in the MGHI them. IN AND. Surikova (1936 – 1945) from S.V. Gerasimova. Yuri Petrovich painted portraits in the early period of his creative work (for the cycle “Noble People of Moscow”, 1949, State Prize of the USSR, 1950), worked on historical and revolutionary themes. Kugach from the early 1960’s appeals mainly to the topic of the new in the life of the modern village, seeks to poeticize the traditional features of Russian folk life (“Before the Dances”, 1961, The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, “Haymaking in the Forest”, 1967, Omsk Museum of Fine Arts, “Farewell”, 1969, Directorate art funds and design of monuments of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, Moscow). State Prize of the RSFSR them. I.E. Repin (1969). Portraitist, the author of genre paintings, sustained in the traditions of the Russian realistic school of painting. Taught in the MGHI then the Surikov Institute. He participated in numerous foreign exhibitions around the world. The works of Yu. P. are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Kiev Museum of Russian Art, the art museums of Gorky, Rostov, Kharkov, Lvov and Taganrog. He is listed in Matthew Bown's, A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters.
(source: Paul Scott Gallery)