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In 1940, wrote a series of portraits, and finally completes the picture "Pushkin" (wrote 8 years).
Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the artist and his family remains in Moscow, and since November 1941 then went back to work.
Portraits Yumashev, work on which lasts until January 1942.

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It is also an artist creating paintings on themes of relevance to the war years (canvas "Where is the give blood?", 1942).
  1942-1943 year working on a portrait of Mikhail Lermontov.
"In a bomb shelter read Lermontov, I was thinking to write our great poet and patriot. I came across just the publication of my father. Many memories came rushing at me. When we go in the Caucasus, I often imagined Lermontov is the station Kazbek. So I decided to portray him and, making a sketch, he began to explore his portraits, daily life and costumes of the time. read all the memories of him, and it helped me to imagine a poet ... In July 1942 I returned to Lermontov. again began reading his biography, memories of him , looking for the most dramatic moment of his life to painting. After the death of Pushkin's still little known Lermontov, shocked and angered by the tragic death of "the sun of Russian land" (Dostoevsky's words), wrote brilliant poems "On the Death of a Poet." Verses on the lips of all Russia. Lermontov, already a recognized poet, goes into exile to the Caucasus, in the current 44-th Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment. The first reference to the Caucasus, Lermontov theme of my paintings.
 
Image Lermontov I was looking at the portrait painted from life, in the memoirs of contemporaries, and, finally, in his poetry. Lermontov, proud and happy recognition, nostalgic, almost a young man is such he must be on my picture. In exile, Lermontov wrote a remarkable poem, "Kazbek", expressing his concerns, his anguish.
Lermontov's "I graduated in April 1943.." Autobiography. L. 5-6.
 
During the war years, also wrote three of the Moscow spring landscape, three lilac bouquet of three, two self-portrait, a portrait of L. Tolstoy and SN Troynitskogo.
In 1944, performs sketches and scenery to Bizet's opera "Carmen" for the State Academic Bolshoi Theater. Work continues in 1945.
 
In 1946 he wrote Still Life "oranges and crumpled paper" on the PP Chistyakov, and also creates a genre picture - "floor polisher", written in a precise, confident, beautiful style.
 
In the second half of the 40-ies Konchalovsky wrote a large number of portraits, often the nature of the chamber.

It may be noted portrait of the surgeon AA Vishnevsky (1951) or a long series of portraits of the artist's grandchildren, for example, paintings: "Margot dancing" (1949), "Andron with the dog" (1949), "Margot the cat" (1948) .

Also to the post-war years are numerous landscapes, paintings depicting the people's life against the backdrop of the Russian nature (with the lopsided "1948," They row hay, 1947), still-lifes ( "Wild flowers on a background of green blinds," "Wild rose against the white tile stove" "Wine and ham, a long series of" Lilac ").
 
The work of this period, as it sums up the artist his creative experience. Strive for the synthesis of painting and then began to write large canvases.
 
In the introduction to the catalog accompanying the fifteenth solo exhibition Konchalovsky (1951), Vsevolod Ivanov summary of previous years, the artist's work: "Creativity Konchalovsky's really evolved into these days, and past - were merely its approach to this holiday ... Paints Konchalovsky bright, sun and air in his paintings a lot, coloring his unusually juicy, objects, it shows clearly, vividly ... 15 anniversary exhibition PP Konchalovsky - a huge victory for the artist.

This victory came to the artist, stood in the way of real, sincere service to his art to the people. Author tracks, landscape, portrait painter, theater artist, a master of still lifes, painted porcelain dishes and samples of tin tray - everywhere he a great artist, who loved life and life is most in love with the art ... Worker, every night spared that day was over, but the hand is surely not tired; connoisseur of fine works of others, cheering the emergence of new talent and otherwise help promote this talent, social activist, passionately fond of the Soviet homeland and its achievements in all areas of life ,
  Such Pyotr Konchalovsky, the singer of flowers, the sun and heat. "

In 1954, for 2 years before his death, the artist wrote his last great painting "on the lawn. Depicting a family picnic, Konchalovsky together on one canvas elements of landscape, still life, portrait and self-portrait and genre painting, thus summing up his unique creativity.