Samokish Nikolai Semyonovich
Japanese Siding
Year
1920-1940
Material
Paper, watercolor, pencil
Dimensions
28,7х45,8 см.
Category
Graphics
Period
Soviet Period (1917–1991)
The work is executed in watercolor and pencil on paper. The composition reflects Nikolai Samokish's characteristic interest in dynamic scenes and detailed spatial rendering.
Artist
Samokish Nikolai Semyonovich
SN
1860 — 1944
Nikolai Semyonovich Samokish (1860–1944) was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, educator, and Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He was one of the founders of Soviet battle painting. He graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts and was an Academy pensioner in France. He taught at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts, and the Kharkiv Art Institute. He was a laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1941) for the painting 'The Red Army Crossing the Sivash'.
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