Spring Fine Art Exhibition of Leningrad artists (Leningrad, 1955) () become one of the important Soviet Art Exhibition of 1955 and middle of 1950s at whole. The Exhibition took place in Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls on Bolshaya Morskaya st. 38.
History and Organization
Exhibition was opened on 7, July. The Department of Art and Crafts has been opened on 10, June. Organization and preparation of Exhibition was engaged specially formed Exhibition Committee which consisted of 23 the most authoritative art-experts headed by Yaroslav Nikolaev. It was published Catalog of the exhibition. In total, was exhibited almost 630 works of art from 192 painters, sculptors, graphic artists, masters of art and crafts.
Contributing Artists
In the largest Department of Painting were exhibited art works of 91 authors. There were Evgenia Antipova, Irina Baldina, Leonid Baykov, Dmitry Buchkin, Vladimir Gorb, Alexei Eriomin, Maya Kopitseva, Gevork Kotiantz, Boris Lavrenko, Ivan Lavsky, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Nikolai Mukho, Lev Orekhov, Sergei Osipov, Filaret Pakun, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Varlen Pen, Lev Russov, Ivan Savenko, Alexander Semionov, Arseny Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Alexander Shmidt, Elena Skuin, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Yuri Tulin, Boris Ugarov, Piotr Vasiliev, Vecheslav Zagonek, Ruben Zakharian, Elena Zhukova, and others most prominent painters of the Leningrad School.
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 13 sculptors. Department of graphics presented a creation of 37 artists. There were Evgenia Antipova, Anatoli Kaplan, Anna Kostrova, Alexei Pakhomov, Varlen Pen, Alexander Vedernikov, Georgy Vereysky, Vasily Zvontsov, and others.
Contributed Artworks
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1954–1955 years. They were exhibited in the first time. Some of them were subsequently found in the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.
Genre painting was presented of "Tugboat at the bunker" by Leonid Baykov, "In Novosibirsk" by Alexei Eriomin, "Pier on the Volga" by Piotr Fomin, "Pyongyang in the August", "In the Old Pyongyang", "Rainy day in Pyongyang", "Korean artists" by Varlen Pen, "At the Sea" by Lev Russov, "Herzen street", "Stalin Avenue", "Neva River embankment", "Narva Triumphal Arch" by Arseny Semionov, "On plein air" by Elena Skuin, "A First Line of the Vasilievsky Island", "May Day on Vasilievsky Island", "Teatralnaya Square" by Leonid Tkachenko, "Rally at the monument to the victims of Bloody Sunday" by Yuri Tulin, "In the Collective Farm. 1929 Year", "Street", "In the yard" by Boris Ugarov, "Nevsky Prospekt in winter" by Vasily Vikulov, and some others.
Portrait was presented of "Natasha" by Irina Baldina, "Portrait of chemist Monastyrsky" by Solomon Epshtein, "Old Man in White dress", "Korean Old Man in winter dress", "A Head of Korean girl", "Grandfather of Kim Il Sung", "Interpreter - Chinese girl" by Varlen Pen, "Portrait of artist Kremer" by Lev Russov, "Portrait of Lena" by Yuri Tulin, "Portrait of artist Veniamin Kremer" by Lev Russov, "Self-Portrait" by Gleb Verner, and some others.