Mikhail Anikushin, Vladimir Vetrogonsky, Boris Ugarov. Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture
Exhibition brings together more than 90 works by the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, the graphic artist Vladimir Vetrogonsky and the artist Boris Ugarov.
Rumyansev Mansion, 45 Galernaya Street
Exhibition brings together more than 90 works by the sculptor Mikhail Anikushin, the graphic artist Vladimir Vetrogonsky and the artist Boris Ugarov. Careers of these masters had much in common. All of them were the professors of Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture and brought up a series of brilliant painters, graphic artists and sculptors. Being contemporaries, they adhered to the same ideas and principles, and developed the traditions of Russian realistic art
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Among the works by Mikhail Anikushin, represented at the exhibition, are sculptural portraits of Alexander Pushkin, Anton Chekhov, and the ballerina Galina Ulanova. Series of works by Vladimir Vetrogonsky “Severnaya Magnitka” and “Volgo-Balt” tell the story of Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Company and Volga-Baltic Waterway. The exhibition also includes watercolours by Vladimir Vetrogonsky, created in Russia and abroad in the 1950s – 1990s. Paintings by Boris Ugarov “Pushkin” (1970), “A. S. Pushkin. White Night” (1985), “Hunting” (1988) and numerous landscapes, are on display. Some of the items on loan from private collections have never been exhibited before, for instance, “Transportation of Ice” by Boris Ugarov.