Bidspirit auction | Vereisky G.S.

Vereisky G.S. - A young ballerina.. Year:  1923. Technique:  Lithography. Size:  49х38,5. Descripton:  Signed and dated lower right. Vereisky Georgy Semenovich (1886, Podolsk province - 1962, Leningrad). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1962). Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Laureate of the USSR State Prize in 1946. Russian artist, master of easel graphics, representative of “quiet art”. Studied at the studio of E.E. Schrader (1901–1905) and in St. Petersburg, in the New Art Workshop with M.V. Dobuzhinsky and A.P. Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1913–1916). He worked as a portrait painter, drawing for the magazines “Theater and Art” and “Voice of Life”. He was a member of the World of Art association. Participant in exhibitions since 1904. Works by G.S. Vereisky's works were exhibited at exhibitions in New York, Venice, Leipzig, Sofia, and Warsaw. Personal exhibitions of G.S. Vereisky took place in 1924, 1939, 1946, 1949, 1961, 1962, 1968. He served in the engraving department of the Hermitage (1918–1930), taught at VKHUTEMAS (1918–1922) and other institutes. He was one of the founders of the Experimental Lithographic Workshop of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Museum of the Academy of Arts, and in many other museums.