Bidspirit auction | Gerasimov S.V.

Gerasimov S.V. - Rally.. Year:  1937 Technique:  Oil on canvas. Size:  80x100. Descripton:  Dated lower left. Expertize:  Certificate by the Independent Research Examination named after P.M. Tretiakov. Gerasimov Sergey Vasilievich (1885, Mozhaisk - 1964, Moscow). People's Artist of the USSR. Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. He studied at the Stroganov Central School of Art and Industry under K.A. Korovin, then at his Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Member of the associations “Moscow Salon” (1911-1920), “World of Art” (1920), “Makovets” (1921-1922), “OMH” (1926-1929), AHR (1930-1932). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1966) for the series of paintings “Russian Land”. The artist’s personal exhibitions were repeatedly held in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Bucharest, Warsaw, Prague, and Bratislava. Works by S.V. Gerasimov are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin, the State Literary Museum in Moscow, the State Museum of Russian Art in Kyiv and many other museums.