Size app.: 70 x 50 cm (roughly 27.6 x 19.7 in), in frame 80 x 59 cm (roughly 31.5 x 23.2 in). Very good condition with age and wear. Please study good resolution images for cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2.1 kg is going to measure 4 kg packed for shipment.
In May 1935 he graduated from the M. Gorky secondary school in the city of Dzerzhinsk and entered the Odessa Art School , which he graduated in 1938. Further studies at the Moscow State Academy of Arts named after V. I. Surikov were interrupted by the war - in 1941 he was drafted as a private in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Leningrad Infantry Division of the People's Militia. After the end of the war, he returned to study at the institute, where his mentors were P. D. Pokarzhevsky, A. A. Osmerkin , G. M. Shegal. He completed his studies in 1948, presenting his thesis “A. M. Gorky and Ya. M. Sverdlov on the Volga”. Since 1948, he has been a regular participant in art exhibitions. Lived and worked in Moscow. Works presented in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Saratov Art Museum named after A. N. Radishchev, Belgorod State Art Museum, Sochi Art Museum named after Dmitry Zhilinsky, Odessa National Art Museum, Alexander Sloboda Museum-Reserve, Rybinsk Museum-Reserve, Stary Oskol Art Museum and private collections of collectors around the world.