L. S. Kourzenkov “Motherhood”. Paper, mixed media, gouache, tempera, passe-partout. 1960s (?).

Dimensions: ...

L. S. Kourzenkov “Motherhood”. Paper, mixed media, gouache, tempera, passe-partout. 1960s (?).

Dimensions: passe-partout: 95.5x76 cm; passe-partout window: 74.5x55cm.

Author’s signature in pen is under the image.

The artwork is inspired by the artist’s family.

Condition: in an excellent state of preservation. Without evident significant defects.

Kurzenkov Leonid Sergeevich (1936-2015). Graphic artist, icon painter, production designer. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Born in the family of the pilot-hero of the Soviet Union, Sergey Georgievich Kurzenkov in the city of Naro-Fominsk. After graduating from high school, he entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography at the Faculty of Art. In 1961 he graduated from the VGIK art and decorative department, where he studied with such famous theater and cinema artists as M. Bogdanov, Yu. Pimenov, G. Myasnikov, Yu. Bogorodsky. Received distribution at the studio "Lenfilm", actively worked at the film studio to them. Gorky as a production designer, and since then his creative biography has been associated with a variety of films that are released not only in Leningrad, but also in Moscow.

In 1964 he joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1964, a regular participant in Moscow, republican and foreign art exhibitions. Participated in the exhibition of the Russian Museum "Arrangements of Russian folk love pictures" in 1977. Laureate of certificates of honor of the Moscow Organization of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and the central exhibition hall of Leningrad. Also Kurzenkov L.S. He was a member of the Orthodox Academy, associate professor of the Catechism Institute of the High Petrovsky Monastery. In 2007, he was awarded the Order of the Prelate of Moscow Innocent.

His works were acquired by: the Museum of Sports Glory of CSKA of the Federal Autonomous Institution of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “The Central Sports Club of the Army”, “The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” (Moscow), the Museum of Traditional Art of the World's Peoples (Moscow), private collectors of Russia, Western Europe, Asia, America and China.