Peter Sokolov - an outstanding draftsman and watercolorist, master large and complex compositions, illustrations for the works of Gogol and Turgenev.
His contemporary, Nicholas Karazin indicates that Sokolov in the process of making hundreds of sketches of various scenes, groups of people and horses. This strict discipline in working with the kind of figure, which is the basis of all art, is explained by a masterly picture of any movement, angle, fixing the correctness of details that we see in the works of Peter Sokolov.
From the book by K. Kravchenko Peter Sokolov.
By the way, Sokolov in 1887, was a personal exhibition in OPH, which enjoyed tremendous success. Now if there was shown a portrait, it would have lost many Sokolov their customers. But in his signature (in shape) is really very simple, as used by many unscrupulous comrades on hand. On the pre-revolutionary art forgeries and Sverchkova Sokolov wrote in his memoirs, the famous horseman and collector Frenkel Butovich. Anyway, this picture is not drawn on any of Sokolov's painting, nor in the knowledge of the subject, ie, horse.
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