Shcherbakov Boris Valentinovich
Yasnaya Polyana. High Water
Material
Oil on hardboard
Dimensions
75х65
Category
Painting
Period
Soviet Period (1917–1991)
A landscape depicting the spring flood at the Yasnaya Polyana estate. The work is executed in oil on hardboard.
Artist
Shcherbakov Boris Valentinovich
1916 — 1995
Boris Valentinovich Shcherbakov was a Russian painter, People's Artist of the USSR, and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 1939, he graduated from the Repin Institute of the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad (I. I. Brodsky's studio). He was an author of portraits of contemporaries and thematic landscape cycles. In 1952, he was awarded the USSR State Prize for his participation in the creation of the painting "Meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences" and other works. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded several USSR medals.