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Russian-Soviet art is highly collectible worldwide because of the extensive artistic training demanded by the former Soviet
system. Through an exclusive Nashville-area relationship with a renowned authority on Russian art, I have access to paintings
by more than 200 artists from the former Soviet Union. This former professor travels to Russia several times a year to buy
directly from artists in their studios, so each work has provenance.
Many of the artists are quite famous throughout Russia, yet their names began reaching U.S. art lovers only in recent
years since exporting has been allowed. The academic system for fine art under Soviet rule was set up and administered by
The Russian Academy of Arts. Artists at each of the institutes underwent six years of rigorous study following one unified
curriculum. It was an approach similar in intensity to the way Russia trained Olympic athletes. The result has been the development
of exceptional artistic talent and works that are considered by many to be exquisite investment art.
Shown in this section are just a few representative paintings which are...or recently have been...hung in my gallery.
If you would like to see more of what is available, please call to discuss your interests and needs: 615-673-2787.
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| Steep Bank, Edouard Panteleimonovich Efanov, oil on canvas |
Edouard Panteleimonovich Efanov
Efanov was born in 1938 in the countryside village of Khrenovoye under Bobrov. Growing up, he was greatly impressed by the
beauty of constantly changing nature. In 1953, he entered the art college in Elets. His teacher there was V. Sorokin, a known
master of poetical landscape. After his service in the Soviet Army, in 1961 Efanov settled in Ramon, the town near Voronezh
where he grew up. The charm of his works lies in light airiness, in subtleness of color combinations, and a blending of classical
Russian emotion and landscape painting that distinguish his work from all others.
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| Village Festival, Mikhail Feodorovich Frolov, oil |
Mikhail Feodorovich Frolov (1922-1990s)
Born in the village of Nelzhe in the Voronezh Region, the young Frolov moved in 1929 into Voronezh where he got the opportunity
to study. In 1940 he entered the Voronezh Art School. He had been a student of the well-known artist Buchkury for a year when
the war interrupted his studies. From 1941 to 1945, he served in the Soviet Army and afterward continued to study in Penza
Art School, one of the oldest art schools in the central part of Russia. He didn’t finish the program at Penza because
his mother became ill, and he was needed at home in Voronezh to work. Creative contacts with such artists as M. Likhachev,
K. Uspenskaya, V. Komolov and others became his art school.
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| Sketch of Haystacks, Grigori Andreevich Goncharov, oil |
Grigori Andreevich Goncharov (1913 - 2001)
Goncharov was born in the town of Rossosh in the Voronezh Region and was the older brother of Boris Andreevich Goncharov (1921-1959),
another well known Russian painter. He first studied with Aleksei Buchkuri and then worked closely with Igor Emmanuilovich
Grabar and Evgeni Aleksandrovich Katsman in the art studio of the Arts and Crafts Center. He began exhibiting his works in
1940. After serving in the Russian Army during the war, he returned to Voronezh and continued to paint. His paintings began
to capture historical images and the rewards of peaceful labor. His works are remarkable for their sincerity and heartfelt
spirit. In 1950 Goncharov became a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR.
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| Walk in the Woods, Svetlana Lisitsina, oil on canvas |
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| The Courtyard of My Childhood, Svetlana Lisitsina |
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Svetlana Lisitsina
Lisitsina graduated from the Voronezh Art College in 1995. After graduation she began teaching at the Voronezh Children’s
Art School, from which she herself had graduated in 1990. Today, she works solely at prducing her own art. Lisitsina was born
in Voronezh, Russia, in 1974.
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| February Day, Vladimir Ilich Shchedrin, oil |
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| Evening, Vladimir Ilich Shchedrin, oil |
Vladimir Ilich Shchedrin
Shchedrin uses varying styles to paint landscapes depicting varying moods, times of day, and seasons of the year. Some landscapes
are soft and impressionistic; others are brightly colored with broad brush strokes. Every year he goes to the Academic Dacha
in the countryside outside Moscow where he paints for two or three months. The works he paints there tend to be more naturalistic
than the bright colors of some of his other paintings. When not at his dacha, Shchedrin lives in Voronezh and has exhibited
his paintings in France, Germany, and the United States as well as in Russia. He was born in Voronezh in 1942. He was educated
in the town of Penza.
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| Early Spring, Yevgeni Dmitrievich Shcheglov, oil |
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Yevgeni Dmitrievich Shcheglov
Born in 1962 in Voronezh, Russia, Shcheglov graduated from the Voronezh Art School in 1986. He then studied painting at the
Kharkov Art and Industrial Institute under the specialty “artist and restorer." At the Kharkov Institute he studied
under the Honored Artist of Ukraine A.M. Konstantinopolsky, and also under V.L. Gonotsky and V.N. Chaus. Shcheglov is recognized
as the best portrait painter of Voronezh. He has been a member of the Ukrainian Artists’ Union since 1993 and of the
Russian Artists’ Union since 2001. He is currently the Dean of the Art Department at the Voronezh Art Academy. Shcheglov’s
works can be found in the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the Lisky Museum of History and Regional Studies, and in private
collections in Russian and abroad. He lives and works in Voronezh.
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| March, Yuri Fedorovich Vnodchenko, oil |
Yuri Fedorovich Vnodchenko
Born October 8, 1927, in the town of Kasharka in the Odessa region of the Ukraine, Vnodchenko was orphaned at the age of six.
He went to a home in a peasant village, and his artwork often honors the commoners who raised him. When Germany invaded the
Ukraine during World War II, the children at the home were moved to Teraspol in Moldova. As in the rest of the Soviet Union,
the children were forced to forage through bombed-out buildings to survive. On one foraging expedition, he found a set of
oil paints and began copying paintings he saw in books and museums. He was able to sell some of these, providing a small income
for himself. When the war ended, Vnodchenko formally studied art at the newly opened art college in Kishinev, the capital
of Moldova. After that, he studied at the Kiev Art Institute under the famous artist and academician Tatyana Yablonskaya.
Vnodchenko graduated from the Kiev Art Institute in 1956 and moved to Voronezh. A member of the Artists’ Union of the
USSR since 1961, he was awarded the extremely prestigious title of “Honored Artist of Russia” in 1976.
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