Bidspirit auction | Meshkov V.V.

Meshkov V.V. - [From the collection of V.A. Pushkarev] Northern etude.. Year:  1951 Technique:  Oil on cardboard. Size:  11.5x31. Descripton:  Dated lower right. The work comes from the collection of Vasily Alekseevich Pushkarev (director of the Russian Museum from 1951 to 1977). Meshkov Vasily Vasilievich (1893-1963). Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts, laureate of the Stalin Prize. The son of the famous Russian painter V.N. Meshkov, studied first with his father, then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Master of thematic paintings on industrial themes, landscape painter, worked a lot in the theater. Since the second half of the 1930s. worked on creating panoramas, dioramas, and exhibition panels. Member of the AHRR. From 1916 to 1923 participated in traveling exhibitions, and from 1923 to 1926 - in exhibitions of the Academy of Russian Artists. In 1916, a personal exhibition of paintings by V.N. and V.V. Meshkov. The artist's personal exhibitions were held in Novosibirsk (1929), in Moscow, at the Central Military History Museum (1941), in Venice (1956). Paintings by V.V. Meshkov's works were exhibited at the international exhibition in Brussels (1958). The artist’s works are stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum and other domestic museums.