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| | (101) Andrei Gavrilovich LYSENKO ERROR MSG(Sandata, 1916) Marshland with chickens Oil on media board 19" x 26 3/4" 26 3/4" x 34 1/4" framed Signed, lower left SOLD |
| Andrei Gavrilovich Lysenko was born in 1916 in the remote village of the Sandata, Rostov-on-Don to the family of a farrier. It is said that he was born with a passion for painting, and as there were neither paints nor paper in the village, the future artist could use only pencil and a stump to copy pictures from an old calendar onto pieces of packing paper. He also decorated the white walls of the houses in the neighborhood with caricatures of animals and people, and he managed to do so with amazing likeness. After finishing school, the 15-year-old teenager worked as a hammerer in the farriery of his father. Then, the collective farm sent the talented young man to study in an art school in the city of Krasnodar. In 1938, Lysenko came to Moscow with the intention of studying painting seriously. He worked as a painter and prepared for entering a higher art institution. Andrei showed his paintings and drawings to the famous artist Igor Grabar, who at that time was the Director of the Surikov Art College. Grabar was so fond of the young mans works that Lysenko was immediately enrolled in college as a second year student without exams. Among the teachers were such fabulous artists as Lentulov and Ioganson. In 1944, Lysenko was the first among other students to receive the prize in the I.E. Repin competition. ERROR MSGThis was the first official acknowledgement of the young artists talent. Over the years, he has received many other awards and honors, becoming one of the leading artists of the home country. It is not surprising that he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Russia. Since 1949, Lysenkos paintings have occupied central places at over one hundred of the greatest state art exhibitions. His entire life was devoted to painting the history of Russia. He depicted historical events beginning with the times of Peter the Great, and leading up to the present. Many of his works are devoted to the Revolution of 1917, the Second World War (1941-1945), and the breaking of virgin soil (1954-1957). His creative work was centered on the spiritual beauty of the ordinary Russian man. Today in Russia, Andrei Gavrilovich Lysenkos works can be found in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Central Revolutionary Museum, the Army Museum and the Lenin Museum. Reproductions of his works continue to be published in magazines, art publications and schoolbooks. Personal and joint exhibitions were held in Russia, France, the U.S.A., Japan, Italy, Canada and Great Britain. His works can be found in many private collections throughout Europe, America, Asia and Australia.
ERROR MSG Recorded: ERROR MSG Brown, Matthew Cullerne. A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters, 1900 to 1980s. (London: Izomar Limited, 1998). Brown, Matthew Cullerne. Socialist Realist Painting.ERROR MSG (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). | |
