| Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978. Catalog | |
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| Year | 1978 |
| Location | Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists Exhibition Halls, Leningrad |
Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978 (Russian: Осенняя выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1978 года) opened in Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists and became one of the largest art exhibitions of 1978 in the USSR.
A special exhibition committee which consisted of the most authoritative art-experts was formed to organise and prepare the exhibit. A catalog of the exhibition was published.[1] In total, the exhibition displayed almost 1100 works of art by painters, sculptors, graphic artists, artists of theater and cinema, and masters of arts and crafts. The event involved over 650 artists of Leningrad.
In the largest department, Painting, the works of 300 artists appeared. These included Piotr Alberti, Taisia Afonina, Irina Baldina, Nikolai Baskakov, Evgenia Baykova, Vsevolod Bazhenov, Piotr Belousov, Veniamin Borisov, Boris F Borzin, Zlata Bizova, Dmitry Buchkin, Lev Chegorovsky, Evgeny Chuprun, Sergei Frolov, Nikolai Galakhov, Vladimir Gorb, Irina Dobrekova, German Egoshin, Alexei Eriomin, Mikhail Kaneev, Yuri Khukhrov, Maya Kopitseva, Elena Kostenko, Nikolai Kostrov, Anna Kostrova, Gevork Kotiantz, Mikhail Kozell, Marina Kozlovskaya, Vladimir Krantz, Anatoli Levitin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Boris Maluev, Eugene Maltsev, Yuri Mezhirov, Nikolai Mukho, Vera Nazina, Alexander Naumov, Dmitry Oboznenko, Victor Otiev, Yuri Pavlov, Varlen Pen, Evgeny Pozdniakov, Valentina Rakhina, Semion Rotnitsky, Alexander Semionov, Yuri Shablikin, Boris Shamanov, Alexander Stolbov, Alexander Tatarenko, German Tatarinov, Nikolai Timkov, Leonid Tkachenko, Yuri Tulin, Vitaly Tulenev, Boris Ugarov, Ivan Varichev, Anatoli Vasiliev, German Yegoshin, Ruben Zakharian, Elena Zhukova, and others - the most prominent painters of the Leningrad School.[2]
In the Department of Sculptures were exhibited art works of 76 sculptors. Department of graphics presented the creations of 177 artists.
For the Exhibition were selected art works created in 1977-1978, as well as some earlier works. All were exhibited for the first time. Some of them were subsequently added to the collections of Soviet Art museums, as well as domestic and foreign galleries and collectors.
Portraits were presented: "Portrait of a Korean woman Tamara"byTaisia Afonina, "Portrait of a surgeon"byPiotr Belousov, "My Grandmother"byVeniamin Borisov, "Portrait of Riyn Urg"byLev Chegorovsky, "Loneliness"byLev Chegorovsky, "Stanislav", "Student"byYuri Khukhrov, "Selfportrait", "Portrait of art critic Kryzhanovskaya"byElena Kostenko, "Portrait of Bochkin, a Hero of Socialist Labor", "Engineer Masha Soboleva"byAnatoli Levitin, "Portrait of Kirill Lavrov, actor of cinema and theater"byYuri Mezhirov, "Portrait of artist Leonid Ptitsyn"byYuri Pavlov, "Portrait of wife", "Portrait of artist Yaroslav Nikolaev"byVarlen Pen, "Portrait of mother, actress Anna Plekhanova"byAlexander Tatarenko, "Portrait of son"byBoris Ugarov, "Andrey"byElena Zhukova, and others.[3]
Genre paintings included "Lenin in Switzerland"byPiotr Belousov, "After work", "Spring care"byZlata Bizova, "Loneliness"byLev Chegorovsky, "At the 5th Heat power plant"byEvgeny Chuprun, "A Spring"byAlexei Eriomin, "In Art Studio"byVladimir Gorb, "Prophet"byEugene Maltsev, "Plovdiv"byBoris Maluev, "Concerto for piano", "Concert with the ballerina"byLeonid Tkachenko, "Grandma's mirror"byVitaly Tulenev, "Night grazing"byBoris Ugarov, and others.[4]
Landscapes and Cityscapes featured "A Lake"byPiotr Alberti, "Spring on the Volkhov River"byNikolai Baskakov, "The Last Snow"byVsevolod Bazhenov, "Abandoned house", "Pesochnaya embankment"byDmitry Buchkin, "House in Pogost village", "Bathhouses are stoked"byAlexei Eriomin, "Kem town. A Winter is coming"byNikolai Galakhov, "Chukhloma", "Leningrad courtyard", "Nevsky Prospekt"byMikhail Kaneev, "Autumn garden", "Rowan tree"byMaya Kopitseva, "In an autumn attire", "Near Pudost village"byMikhail Kozell, "Ravine", "Old linden alley", "Petrogradskaya Storona district of the Leningrad"byMarina Kozlovskaya, "April"byVladimir Krantz, "Sunny May", "Cool May"byDmitry Maevsky, "Mouth of the Neva River"byNikolai Mukho, "Bukhara. Rainy day"byAlexander Naumov, "In the wood", "A Window"byVera Nazina, "Warm spring day", "Golden forest", "Spring song", "Summer Garden"byDmitry Oboznenko, "On the Black Sea", "Beach in Jamete"byVictor Otiev, "Autumn"byVarlen Pen, "Rainy day in Terentievo village", "Autumn Twilight"byEvgeny Pozdniakov, "A Canal in winter", "Shkipersky protok street in Leningrad"byValentina Rakhina, "Forest Lake", "Windy day in Tolmachyovo"bySemion Rotnitsky, "Furmanov street", "At the Saint Isaac's Square", "Summer Garden in Autumn"byAlexander Semionov, "Before Sunset"byYuri Shablikin, "Landscape with tractor"byAlexander Stolbov, "Bird cherry blossomed", "Melody of Autumn"byGerman Tatarinov, "Torzhok", "A Winter", "Rains"byNikolai Timkov, "Terpigorie village", "Crimea. Kipchak village"byYuri Tulin, "Lopino village", "Autumn in Zastenje village", "Banks of the Volkhov River"byIvan Varichev, "Spring on Mstino Lake"byAnatoli Vasiliev, "Streets of Paris", "Tatar houses", "Krasnokamenka village"byGerman Yegoshin, "Spring on the Okhta", "Gulf", "Relict of the Past"byElena Zhukova, and others.[5]
Still life paintings were presented of "Flowers"byIrina Baldina, "Autumn Bouquet"byEvgenia Baykova, "Flowers and Sink"byVladimir Gorb, "Sunflowers"byIrina Dobrekova, "Plums and Pears", "Lilies of the valley", "Plums and pears"byMaya Kopitseva, "Still life", "Still life with a book"byGevork Kotiantz, "Jug and Fruits", "Bread with Black Jug"byGavriil Malish, "Peonies and green sofa"byValentina Rakhina, "Flowers of North", "A White night. A Lilac"byBoris Shamanov, "Still life with Red Tray"byAlexander Stolbov, "Golden fish"byYuri Tulin, "Countryside Still life"byAnatoli Vasiliev, "A Lilac"byRuben Zakharian, and others.[6]
The Autumn Exhibition of Leningrad artists of 1978 was widely covered in the press[7] and in literature on Soviet fine art.[8][9][10]
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