Bidspirit auction | Meshkov V.N.

Meshkov V.N. - [On the 170th anniversary of the famous journalist's birth] Portrait of V.A. Gilyarovsky.. Year:  1913 Technique:  Charcoal on paper. Size:  35x29. Descripton:  Signed, dated and named lower left. Expertize:  Certificate by the Independent Research Examination named after P.M. Tretiakov. Meshkov Vasily Nikitich (1867-1946). Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1943). Doctor of Art Sciences, Professor at the USSR Academy of Arts. Studied at MUZHVZ (1882-1889) with I.M. Pryanishnikova, V.D. Polenov, and in the Academy of Arts (1889-1890). Lived and worked in Moscow. He taught in his own studio (1892-1917), Moscow VKHUTEMAS (1922-1923), Academy of Arts (1937-1940). Member of the MTH and AHRR (since 1922). The author's works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery and in many museum collections.