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Country and Town House Magazine – Article, Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds, The Nude in Soviet Art by Ivan Lindsay

May 12th, 2018 | By

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'Masterpieces of Soviet painting and sculpture,' Unicorn Press, London, English and Russian language editions, hardback, September 2016, edited by Rena Lavery and Ivan Lindsay.

‘Masterpieces of Soviet Painting and Sculpture’ Can Hardly Be Bettered – A review of our new book

Oct 24th, 2016 | By

Pop Matters – A review of ‘Masterpieces of Soviet Painting and Sculpture’   BY CRAIG OWEN JONES 19 August 2016 This handsome volume has the purpose of bringing to prominence the works of some of the greatest Soviet artists and sculptors active from the ‘20s to the ‘90s. This is a startlingly broad remit, even
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Valentin Sidorov, Near the Old Sheds, 1975, oil on canvas, Russian Museum

Valentin Sidorov Exhibition, My Quiet Country, Benois Wing, Russian Museum, 3/9/14 – 3/11/14.

Jan 3rd, 2015 | By

  One of Russia’s most celebrated post war artists, Valentin Sidorov, has had a successful retrospective at the Russian Museum which closed in November.  Valentin Sidorov was a contemporary of the famous generation of post war artists which included Victor Popkov, Geli Korzhev, Tair Salakhov and Vladimir Stozharov.  His pastoral and lyrical landscapes never fitted
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Sotheby’s to test the market for Soviet period paintings in June

Apr 17th, 2014 | By

Sotheby’s have announced they are to sell a selection of paintings from the collection of the Confederation of Artists Union(formerly the Artists Union) in the sale ‘Important Russian Art’ in London on the 2nd and 3rd June.   The Artists Union have some very good paintings as most of the leading Soviet painters were members
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The State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg – a major exhibition of Russian painters of the Second Half of the XX century, 10/7/12.

Jul 10th, 2012 | By

Courtesy of Stephen Justesen of TKM gallery. “Realism in Russian Art of the Second Half of the XX Century”. The Tkachev Brothers, Valentin Sidorov, Vladimir StozharovAleksei Gritsai, Sergei Gerasimov, Yuri Kugach. On July 4th, The State Russian Museum opened a major exhibition of Russian Realism from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. This period
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