Cafe Gurzuf (painting)
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«Cafe Gurzuf» is a painting by Alexander Nikolayevich SamokhvalovAlexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov - Soviet Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the founder and ...
(1894-1971), well-known Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad
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, regarded as one of the founder and brightest representatives of the Socialist realism art. In the painting artist has depicted a view of summer cafe in Gurzuf, Crimea, in the midle of 1950s.
The picture painted by the artist in one of his visits Gurzuf, where in 1950-60 years he repeatedly vacationing with his wife Maria Alekseyevna Kleschar-Samokhvalova. She served as a model for the central female figure picture composition (a young woman at a table in a pink blouse, studying, apparently the menu). Model for other female figures of the first plan, - a woman left in a yellow dress with a red bag over his arm, up the steps - became the wife of the artist Eugene Kibrik, with whose family they both rest in Gurzuf.
For the first time the painting was exhibited in 1960 at the grand annual exhibition of works by the leningrad artists in the Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1963 painting «Cafe Gurzuf» was shown at the first solo exhibition of Alexander Samokhvalov in Leningrad in the Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists and dedicated to the seventieth of the artist. After the death of Alexander Samokhvalov picture kept by his widow, the artist Maria Kleschar-Samokhvalova. In 1994, after a long break picture again was shown in the halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists at the exhibition of «The Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Leningrad School's artists». In 2007 the painting «Cafe Gurzuf» was reproduced and described among 350 art works by Leningrad artists in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School», published in Russian and English.
See also
- Artist Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (1894—1971)Alexander Nikolayevich SamokhvalovAlexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov - Soviet Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded as one of the founder and ...
