Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov
(Petrograd 1916 - 1995 Moscow)
Autumn Still-Life
on canvas: 84 x 116
Notes
Shcherbakov studied at the Repin Institute of Painting Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad from 1933 until 1939 under Vasili N. Yakovlev, Vasili R. Savinski and Isaak I. Brodski. In 1939 he took part in his first exhibition. From 1941 until 1948 he served in the Red Army. After demobilisation he moved to Moscow. Important shows include the All-Union Art Exhibitions in Moscow in 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1955 and Soviet Russia in Moscow in 1960. Shcherbakov specialised in landscapes. He became an Academician and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1952. In 1976 he became a Honoured Artist and in 1986 People's Artist of the USSR.
Work by Shcherbakov can be seen at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and other Russian museums, also in private collections in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and Japan.
Literature for reference: Shcherbakov, catalogue commemorating his 75th birthday, Moscow, Izobrazitelnoe iskusstvo, 1991; Catalogue Overland Gallery 1993, with a colour reproduction on p. 18 Portrait of professor Isaac Brodski (1937); Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism 1930-1970’s, Vern Grosvenor Swanson / Fleisher Museum 1994; A Dictionary of twentieth century Russian and Soviet Painters, Mathew Cullerne Bown, London, 1998; Socialist Realist Painting , M. Cullerne Bown, London / New Haven 1998; Soviet Impressionism, Vern Grosvenor Swanson, Antique Collector’s Club, Woodbridge 2001 with an illustration on page 88, plate 48 Portrait of an Artist (1937) and on page 234 plate 160 Russian Landscape (c. 1955)
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Category
Russian 19th -20th century
still life