Auction 30
Here, at first glance, everything seemed like pure game (F. Dostoevsky).
Oct 24, 2023
St. Petersburg, Novgorodskaya, 23., Russia
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Andrey Andreev, Yuri Annenkov, Ivan Asinovsky, Sergey Beloglazov, Olga Biantovskaya, Veniamin Bogolyubov, Jacob Burckhardt, Dmitry Buchkin, Sofia Velikhova, Victor Vilner, Boris (Isai) Vorobyov, GAV Traugot, Maxim Dukan, Petr Egorov, Efim Efimovsky, Mitrofan Grekov , Alexander Deineka, Mily Dostoevsky, Vladimir Ingal, Nikolai Kostamarov, Matilda Kseshinskaya, Mikhail Larionov, Nikolai Liberich, Matvey Manizer, Ivan Matvienko, Vera Matyukh, Yuri Medvedev, Pavel Muratov, Dmitry Oboznenko, Alexey Pakhomov, Maya Plisetskaya, Konstantin Rudakov, Lev Solodkov, Victor Sonin, Galina Stolbova, Vladimir Sychev, Henrik Tallberg, Hippolyte-Adolf Ten, Alexander Chernitsky, Yuri Chernov, Sergei Chekhonin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Yuri Shamurin, Ananiy Shesterin, Pelageya Shuriga, Ekaterina Yanovskaya.
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Lev Stepanovich Solodkov (1939) is an outstanding master of Soviet and Russian ceramics, an Honored Artist of Russia and a member of the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg. Full member of three academies: Petrovsky ANI, ARSII named after G.R. Derzhavin, European AEN. Laureate of many domestic and international exhibitions.
His works are in domestic and foreign museums.
Among his main works: a table service of 172 items for Patriarch Alexy II, a porcelain iconostasis in Tsarskoe Selo, works from the series “Russia, Rus', protect yourself, protect yourself.” In 1973, at the international competition of ceramists in Faenza, Italy, Solodkov was awarded a gold medal for the works “White Stone Rus'” and “Zaonezhye”. This was Russia’s first gold medal at these exhibitions and an event that revealed to the world not only Solodkov’s work, but also the art behind which stands Russian culture with its thousand-year-old traditions.
Also among the works of Lev Solodkov is a unique work: a porcelain iconostasis in the 18th century church in Tsarskoe Selo in St. Petersburg, created in honor of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “The Sign”; table service “Northern Rus'” of 180 items for Patriarch of All Rus' Alexy II; works of ceramics from the series “Russia, Rus', protect yourself, protect yourself.”