Bidspirit auction | Sokolov I.A.

Sokolov I.A. - Moscow. Theater Square. Vitali Fountain.. Year:  1945 Technique:  Watercolor, whitewash, graphite pencil on paper. Size:  55.8x44.7. Descripton:  Dated lower right. The work comes from the artist's family collection. Sokolov Ilya Alekseevich (1890 - 1968) Artist, architect. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1964), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1954). He worked in an icon painting workshop, then studied in the studio of A.P. Bolshakov in Moscow (1909–1911) and in the graphic workshop of the Moscow Proletkult (1919–1921) with V.D. Falileeva. Exhibitor of “World of Art” exhibitions, member of the Academy of Artists of Russia (since 1924). His works on everyday and industrial themes, landscapes and interiors are distinguished by their sonority of color and skilful rendering of the light-air environment. In 1951, the artist was awarded the USSR State Prize for a series of color linocuts on the theme of socialist labor (1949). The author's works are stored in many regional museums, as well as in the State Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum.