Bidspirit auction | Nikonov M.F.

Nikonov M.F. - Circus.. Year: 1978 Size: 80x80. Technique: Oil on canvas. Descripton: Signed and dated lower right. Confirmation by the artist's son. Nikonov Mikhail Fedorovich (1928–2010). Soviet and Russian painter and graphic artist, one of the founders of the ”harsh style”, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1957). He studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School (1940-1947), then at the V. I. Surikov Moscow State Institute (1947-1953) in the workshop of V. P. Efanov. Participated in exhibitions of the Nine group (Moscow, 1960; Leningrad, 1961), regional and All-Union exhibitions since 1953, solo exhibitions in Moscow (1987, Heritage, 2010; Furious Negativist, 2014) and London (1989), the exhibition Nikonov. Three Artists” at the State Tretyakov Gallery (2020). The works are represented in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg‑St. Petersburg), the Institute of Russian Realistic Art (Moscow), the Ryazan State Regional Art Museum named after I. P. Zhalostin, the Tula Regional Art Museum, the Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts and private collections in Russia and abroad.