Продано: V.O.Fomichev, "Lake"

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V.O.Fomichev "Lake", 25h35
Cardboard, oil, 1987
Signed and dated lower right and on the reverse.
Origin: It was donated by the artist to his friend's wife.
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About the artist:
Fomichev Osipovich Basil (1924 - 1992)
Russian painter, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Born in the village Elohovka Tatischevskogo district of Saratov region. Studied fine arts at the Palace of Pioneers izokruzhke Saratov and Saratov Art School (1939-1942), where his teachers were well-known landscape painters and V.F.Gurov B.V.Milovidov. From 1942 to 1945 he worked as a mechanic at a defense plant, from 1945 continued his studies at art school. In 1947 began independent work in the Saratov branch of art fund (up to 1953 in Saratov Association of Artists). In the 60 years Fomichev joined the established mature master. While working in the genre of portraiture and still life in the genre, he still was a born landscape painter. Inexhaustible source of inspiration for the artist began to open spaces of the Volga. It is in the Volga landscape painter's talent revealed most fully and vividly.
The work of O. Fomichev are in museum collections, as well as in many private collections both in Russia and abroad (USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Chile).
In 2009 the artist had made a documentary film.