Bidspirit auction | Tselkov O.N.

Tselkov O.N. - Portrait with hands.. Year: 2007. Size: 130х89. Technique: Oil on canvas. Signed at the top right. Signed and dated on the back. Certificate of V.S. Silaev. Tselkov Oleg Nikolaevich (1934-2021) Russian Soviet artist. Representative of “unofficial” art. Studied at the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin. In 1958 he graduated from the Leningrad Theater Institute (where he attended N.P. Akimov’s course) with a degree in stage artist-technologist. Since 1977 he lives and works in Paris. Laureate of the non-state Russian award ”Triumph” (2005). The author's works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the State Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University (New Jersey, USA), in private collections in France, Russia, and the USA.