Autumn by the pond

Nikolai Alexandrovich Sokolov was a Soviet painter and graphic artist, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, and laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes. In 1929, he graduated from VKhUTEIN, where he studied under N. N. Kupreyanov and P. I. Lvov. He was a member of the 'Kukryniksy' collective (alongside M. V. Kupriyanov and P. N. Krylov), working in political satire, posters, and book illustration. Independently, he worked in landscape, portrait, and still-life painting.