*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING *** * TITLE: "Family portrait" * ARTISTS: Popov Igor Alexandrovich * SIZE: 21x29 cm/'8.26x11.41 inches' * MEDIUM: oil, cardboard * HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection * CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product
About the artist: He studied at the Institute. V. I. Surikov (1945-1951) with S. V. Gerasimov.
Since 1954 he was chairman of the board of the Moscow organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR [3].
Popov's work (mainly self-portraits, genre compositions, portraits) is imbued with a poetic perception of Russian nature, modern life of small Russian cities and their inhabitants; his paintings are characterized by free pictorial modeling (Bazaar Day, 1958-60, Yaroslavl Art Museum; series of portraits Fishermen from Galich, 1965, Directorate of Art Foundations and Design of Monuments of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, 1967, and September. Silence, 1972, both at the Tretyakov Gallery). One of his paintings "The First Snowball" also shows a small Russian town and its inhabitants.
The artist was buried at the Novosibirsk cemetery [4].
