*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING *** * TITLE: "For Baptism" * ARTISTS: Popov Igor Alexandrovich * SIZE: 19x25 cm/'7.48x9.84 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 the 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 Funds and Designing Monuments of the Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR, 1967, and September. Silence, 1972, - both in 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].
