Abakumov Mikhail Georgievich
At the dock.

At the dock.
Year: 1975.
Technique: Tempera, varnish, oil on hardboard.
Size: 50х87.

Signature and date bottom left. Work purchased from the author.

Abakumov Mikhail Georgievich (born in 1948, Kolomna - 2010, Kolomna).

Honored Artist of Russia (1993). People’s Artist of Russia (2001). Laureate of the V.K. Bialynitsky-Birulia Prize (2002). Honorary citizen of the city of Kolomna (2003). Mikhail Abakumov entered the Moscow Kalinin Higher Art and Industry College in 1964. In 1971 he entered the faculty of arts of the State Film Institute (VGIK) where Professors I. Shpinel and A. Myasenikov were his teachers. From 1977 to 1983 Mikhail Abakumov worked at the Painting Studio of the Academy of Arts of the USSR under А. & С. Tkachev and A. Gritsay. The artist participated in exhibitions at city, republic and union levels as well as abroad since 1975. In 1985 and 1987 he was awarded honorary diplomas by the Academy of Arts of the USSR. In 1995, the Russian Academy of Arts awarded him its Gold medal. He joined the Artists’ Union of the Russian Federation in 1980. The artist had his one-man shows in Kolomna (1982), in Moscow (1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004) and in many other cities of Russia as well as in Rome (Villa Abamelec, 2000), Naples (2001), and Paris (2003, 2004). The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, in many regional museums, and in private collections in Russia and abroad.