Woodcut. Ivan Pavlov. After Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Author's impression.

Woodcut. Ivan Pavlov. After Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Author's impression.

1936. Verger paper; face engraving. Technique: woodcut. The size of the passepartout and the substrate: 25 x 34.5 cm; the size of the sheet: 25 x 32.5 cm; the size of the image: 13.5 x 17.6 cm. The sheet with the image is worn around the perimeter, has tears, losses; moderate temporary and household stains on the substrate and passepartout, significant-on the woodcut.

Ivan Nikolayevich Pavlov (1872-1951) was a Russian and Soviet engraver and painter. People's artist of the RSFSR (1943). Winner of the second degree Stalin prize (1943).

I. N. Pavlov was born on March 5 (March 17), 1872 in the village of Popovka (now Kashirsky district, Moscow region).

He studied at the Central school of technical drawing in Stieglitz and at the Drawing school Of the society for the encouragement of arts, the workshop Of V. V. mate (1891-1892) in St. Petersburg.

He taught at the Stroganov art and industrial school (1907-1914), the Art school at the typolithography Association of I. D. Sytin (from 1915), and the Free art workshops — VKhUTEMAS (1917-1922) — in Moscow. Students: V. I. Sokolov, M. V. Matorin, O. P. Taiga-Cheshuina.

Member of the AHRR since 1925. Full member of the USSR Academy of SCIENCES since 1947.

I. N. Pavlov died on August 30, 1951. He was buried in Moscow at Novodevichy cemetery (plot 4).

Initially, he created reproduction woodcuts for magazines ("Zaporozhets", from a study by I. E. Repin, 1895), since the late 1900s.-mainly original easel color woodcuts and linocuts.

He worked in the technique of tone engraving, one of the first to approve a new type of engraving, in which the master engraver is an independent artist.

In the first quarter of the XX century, he made a series of albums of original prints: "Outgoing Russia", "Outgoing Moscow", "Old province", "Ostankino", "Landscapes in color woodcuts".

After 1917 he created a series of industrial landscapes in the technique of prints: "Volga at Yaroslavl", "oil Tankers on the Volga", "Elevator on the Kama".

Created more than 75 ex-libris, six of them before 1917.