Pericles Ksidias, View r.Karpovki at the Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg, 1900-ies.
 

Academician of Painting Pericles Ksidias, painting "drawing from nature" (view Karpovka River at the Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg.) Board, oil, St. Petersburg., The beginning of the twentieth century, dimensions: 24 x 30 cm
Price - $ 5000

Ksidias, Pericles Spiridonovich
(1872 - 1942)
Nationality: Greece Greece
Russian Empire The Russian Empire
Citizenship: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR
Genre: painting, engraving
Education: Imperial Academy of Arts
Impact: Pozhalostina, Ivan Petrovich

Pericles Spiridonovich Ksidias (13 (25) July 1872-1942) - Russian
Soviet painter, graphic artist, printmaker.
Biography
Pericles was born July 13, 1872. Former Greek citizen.
From 1889 to 1893 he studied at the Art Academy, was a student of IP
Pozhalostina. In 1891, he received a full-scale class of second and first
silver medals. In 1897, for the engraving "Portrait of AF Kokorinov" Pericles Ksidias was awarded an artist. In 1906 he received the title of academician.
Product P. Ksidiasa exhibited at the spring exhibitions at the Art Academy, where he was a member of the Company name AIKuindzhi. Most of the biography of the artist is the creation of state bank notes and postage stamps. Pericles Ksidias died in 1942.
The first mark of the RSFSR (1918). Engraver P. Ksidias
Jobs Goznak
Ksidias worked in the Expedition of Storing of government securities and
Goznak subsequently was his supervisor. He engraved images on banknotes and stamps, including the first stamps of the RSFSR "The hand with the sword cuts the chain."

Oh, and you have not seen my post about the Greek artists in the "buy"?
Looking, looking, and you are, it turns out Ksidiasa sell!
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