Help evaluate the still life
 

A. Merkulov 54г (possibly Alexander 1904-1973) 43/58sm, canvas, photo maslo.Lyubye pozaprosu.
Possible sale.
Thank you.

If this Merkulov AA Something is a good artist, on the forum about it is information http://forum.artinvestment.ru/blog.php?b=5781&goto=prev
For prices, you yourself have to decide ... here is difficult to give advice.

Can not imagine that the artist painted in so many different manners.

Still frankly weak, and even with so, to put it mildly, unusual artist's signature near the middle of the picture. I think that is the work of the artist, unknown to the general public :)

I do not know that it Merkulov, that was the chief artist of the Northern Fleet, but I note that different tasks require different, and mannerisms.
It is hard to imagine that the still life with poppies is written as well as the polar landscape, in much the same manner. :)

Well I can not imagine that it was written by one and the same artist.

Well, nothing at all, either in temperament or in the manner of building things (and he knew how to build - in graphics, and quite firmly and effectively).

A still life in general, loose in structure, so for the decoration of the city club.

I myself even such a question and do not put it there, is not he?

Small still life size to decorate the club. Is that for decoration accounting in it.

If anyone is familiar with the biography of the artist, should know where he lived in the 50e.
In my region there are his work, even portraits.
This was written not for the club, but a gift to friends.

I think he has always lived in Moscow with his wife, sculptor Markelova.
Is not it?

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And what is "Rykhlova?
It is the bank with flowers on the windowsill, the curtain over there again ...
Bank have? Done Flowers are? Done Poppies? Poppies! Windows, window, curtains? Everything! What there must be something else? What is the "looseness" of the still life? In the composition? What?

Yes, the color composition, so to speak.

Flowers just climb out of the picture, it did not stay.

Not to mention the exaggerated size of flowers.

Yes, all there "holds". Flowers in the bank, not vyvolyatsya not fall.

Well-maki big, beautiful.

Still as a still life. And poppies normal (in my hands a packet of seeds of such cultivation, to 15 cm in diameter). The fact is that many are not the most famous OSTovtsy: Luchishkin, Tyagunov, Denisovsky, Lyushin and others, his best work created up to a maximum 35-year, such work is extremely small. Next, the manner they have greatly changed, and from under their hands out mediocre work, including still lifes. For example Luchishkina still life a long time offered in Gelos. 5 years ago I had a Merkulov 30-ies .- nothing special, average quality paintings.

[QUOTE="Tata, 1085481]5 years ago I had a Merkulov 30-ies .-[/QUOTE]
And do not you think the author of the still life can be so Merkulov, author polar epics.

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[QUOTE="Tata, 1085481]example Luchishkina still life a long time offered in Gelos.[/QUOTE]
It seems he is still there for sale.
[FONT="Arial Narrow"] "Peony".
Oil on canvas. 50x40.
Frame and glass.
Signed bottom poserdine "Luchishkin. [/FONT]

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And remember sovkomovskuyu thing Luchishkina "with dreams of victory"? Late, but interesting, in my opinion.
with the dream of winning
Description: 1981
Oil on canvas. 129h94.
Additional Information: Work published in the monograph Luchishkina SA "I love life. Pages of memories "(Wiley, 1988). Signed and dated lower right.
Estimated value: 3000000 - 3500000 rub.

[QUOTE="Tata, 1085481]example Luchishkina still life a long time offered in Gelos.[/QUOTE]
It seems he is still there for sale.
[FONT="Arial Narrow"] "Peony".
Oil on canvas. 50x40.
Frame and glass.
Signed bottom poserdine "Luchishkin. [/FONT]

[QUOTE="Tata, 1085481]The fact that many are not the most famous OSTovtsy: Luchishkin, Tyagunov, Denisovsky, Lyushin and others, his best work created up to a maximum 35-year, such work is extremely small. Next, the manner they have greatly changed, and from under their hands out mediocre work, including still lifes.[/QUOTE]
And remember sovkomovskuyu thing Luchishkina "with dreams of victory"? Late, but interesting, in my opinion.
[FONT="Arial Narrow"] with the dream of winning
Description: 1981
Oil on canvas. 129h94.
Additional Information: Work published in the monograph Luchishkina SA "I love life. Pages of memories "(Wiley, 1988). Signed and dated lower right.
Estimated value: 3000000 - 3500000 rub. [/FONT]
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