Shcherbakov Boris Valentinovich
Winter near Moscow
Material
Cardboard, oil
Dimensions
50х70
Category
Painting
Period
Soviet Period (1917–1991)
A winter landscape painted in oil on cardboard. Boris Shcherbakov masterfully works with lighting, conveying the characteristic appearance of the nature near Moscow.
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.