Etching. Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich (1872-1951). Kitaygorodskaya wall. From the series "Old Moscow". 1944.

Etching. Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich (1872-1951). Kitaygorodskaya wall. From the series "Old Moscow". 1944.
Author's signature on the background Ivan Pavlov winner of the Stalin Prize, People's Artist of the RSFSR. In the lower right corner is the signature and date: "IP M-12-44g". Below, on the background: "Old Moscow" / Kitaygorodskaya Wall.

Size 37.6 x 51 cm (impression), 70 x 53 cm (backing).

Condition: Engraving-good, the substrate-small losses, traces of moisture.

Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich (1872-1951). Engraver. He was brought up in the Olginsky orphanage (1888-1889); he graduated from the city primary school in Moscow (1883). He attended classes at the private engraving workshop of Karl Richau in Moscow (1883-1886). He studied in St. Petersburg at the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron A. L. Stieglitz (1891-1892) with V. V. Mate, the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1890s) with G. V. Hohenfelden. He lived in St. Petersburg, and from 1904 in Moscow. Since the 1890s, he worked in the field of reproduction engraving in the technique of tone woodcut. As an illustrator, he collaborated in the magazines "Niva", "Pictorial Review", "North". In the early 1900s, he focused on creating original easel engravings. He published albums of woodcuts and linocuts: "Outgoing Russia" (1914), "Outgoing Moscow (Moscow Courtyards)" (1915), "Old Province" (1916), "Ostankino" (1917), "Moscow Courtyards" (1918), "Volga near Yaroslavl" (1920), "Corners of Moscow" (1921), "Landscape in color woodcuts" (1923), "Old Moscow" (1924), "Baku" (1936), "Astrakhan" (1937), "Old Moscow" (1944-1947, for the 800th anniversary of Moscow). He participated in the activities of the Union of Workers of Applied Art and Art Industry (1919), the Leningrad Society of Ex-Librarians (1925-1928), the Association of Graphic Artists at the House of Printing in Moscow (1927); a member of the AHRR - AHR (1925-1932). He taught a course in woodcut printing at the Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School (1907-1914), the Art School at the printing house "I. D. Sytin and Co." (since 1915), GSHM - Vkhutemas (1917-1922); professor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (since 1943), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (since 1947). Winner of the Stalin Prize (1943). Creativity is represented in the largest museum collections, among them-the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Museum of Fine Arts.