Bidspirit auction | Anatoly Petrov (Russian, 1906–1982)

Anatoly Petrov (Russian, 1906–1982) - Anatoly Petrov (Russian, 1906–1982), mixed media on card, signed and dated 1964 l.r., 41 x 62,5 cm. Notes Anatoly Vasilyevich Petrov (1906–1982) was born in Kirsanov. From childhood, he studied drawing in the art circle at the Kirsanov First School. Among the large posters and slogans drawn and painted by the circle for the first industry of 1918, there is a popular caricature drawn by Petrov. The district committee noticed the talented boy and sent him to the Saratov Art School. In 1925, Petrov entered the Saratov Industrial Technical School. During his studies, he worked at the Chernyshevsky Opera Theater in Saratov and as a set designer at the All-Union Electrical Association. After graduating from the technical school and art school, Petrov went to Moscow and enrolled in the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. Participants participated in many art exhibitions. In the post-war period, A.V. Petrov worked for Moscow artists' publishing houses and for the editorial boards of the magazines ”Tekhnika-molodezhi, ” ”Yuny Tekhnik, ” and ”Nauka i Zhizn.” Petrov's colorful drawings, revealing the secrets of science and technology, promoting science and technology in a visually accessible manner, were a great success with readers of popular science magazines. Petrov's work as a promoter of science and technology was recognized by the Union of Journalists of the USSR, and he was accepted into this creative organization in 1962. Thus, the engineer and artist A.V. Petrov was simultaneously a member of two creative unions: the Union of Soviet Artists and the Union of Journalists of the USSR. While working for magazines, A.V. Petrov did not abandon painting. He created numerous works of varying genres: landscapes (many of them painted in his native Kirsanov), still lifes, and portraits. Many of his works are dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. In 1971, in Baku, A.V. Petrov, on behalf of the Union of Journalists of the USSR, organized an All-Union art exhibition to coincide with the 2nd All-Union Conference of Journalists Promoting Science and Technology. At this exhibition, Petrov was awarded an Honorary Diploma for his series of drawings, ”Electronic Technology, ” published in the magazine ”Tekhnika-Molodezhi.”