Plastov Arcady Alexandrovich
Winter day from the workshop window.

Winter day from the workshop window.
Year: 1950s.
Technique: Pencil, watercolor, whitewash on paper.
Size: 29,6х41,7.

Bottom right monogram of the artist. On the back is the seal “From the collection of Nikolai Plastov”. Confirmation of the artist’s grandson.

Plastov Arcady Alexandrovich (1893, Prislonikha, near Simbirsk – 1972, the same town).

The laureate of the Stalin prize (1946), the alureate of the Lenin prize (1966). The full member of the Academy of Arts of USSR (1947). The People’s Artist of USSR (1962)He studied in the Stroganov central artistic and industrial college (1912 – 1914), in the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture, the sculpture department (1914-1917), the classes by S.М. Volnukhin. At the same time, he studied painting from А.Е. Arkhipov, А.S. Stepanov, А.М. VasnetsovMainly, he worked in Prislonikha (near the city of Simbirsk). А.А. Plastov’s personal exhibitions were organized in Moscow (1976, 1983, 1993, 2003) and in Sofia (1964). He was also exhibited in the Union of artists of USSR. The artist’s creations are kept in the Tretyakov State Gallery, the State Russian Museum, in the Regional artistic museum of Ulianovsk, the Samara regional artistic museum and in many other major museums of former USSR