"Still life with an oriental mask" by Lev Kropyvnytsky. 1958. - Paper, watercolors. –Dimensions: see With a pencil in turn a deed of inscription with the date: Dear Alichka from LK on March 9, 1958.
"Still life with an oriental mask" by Lev Kropyvnytsky. 1958. - Paper, watercolors. –
Dimensions: see With a pencil in turn a deed of inscription with the date: Dear Alichka from LK on March 9, 1958.
Conservation is satisfactory: without obvious significant defects, traces of natural aging of materials.
Kropyvnytsky Lev Evgenievich (1922 - 1994) - artist , poet, sculptor, screenwriter, critic, art critic. He was Born on August 27, 1922 in Tyumen. In 1939 he entered the theLviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art. He was the Member of World War II and he was wounded. In 1945 he resumed his studies at Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Art, where Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka was his teacher. he was engaged in painting and sculpture but in 1946 he was arrested on charges of belonging to the "anti-Soviet terrorist organization" and was put to 10 years in GULAG camps. After serving his term in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Kazakhstan in 1954 without the right to leave Balkhash, he worked as a director and artist in a local cultural center. In 1956 he moved to live in Moscow, worked at the Combine of Decorative and Applied Arts, designed museum expositions (museums: Literary, A.S. Pushkin in Moscow, L.N. Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, A.N. Ostrovsky in Shchelykovo), designed expositions of national exhibitions (USA, France, Czechoslovakia. and many others) and domestic museums. The artist acted as a book graphic artist and art critic in the magazine "Decorative Art". L. Kropyvnytsky created classic illustrations for A. Solzhenitsyn’s short story “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”. In 1973 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR. 1983-1987. – he created a cycle of poems and etchings. In 1989, the artist designed the book of poems by G. Sapgir, in 1990 - the book of poems by N. Marin “Janus”. In 1992-1993, the author’s almanac "Attic" was published. In the 1960s – 1970s he participated in many foreign exhibitions. he exhibited in apartments and scientific institutes in Moscow. 10 years after the artist’s death, his personal exhibition was held in the Tretyakov Gallery. are in: Other Art Museum, Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow), State Tretyakov Gallery, Vsevolod Nekrasov Collection (Moscow), New Museum, St. Petersburg and other public and private collections.