Russian Impressionism Original Oil Painting 1950 year. Start Price USD 899.99 Current Price USD 899.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, May 09, 2008 End Time Friday, May 16, 2008 Location Northridge, California See more about 'Russian Impressionism Original Oil Painting 1950 year.' Description   Original Russian Impressionism and Social Realism Fine Art/Painting   Stadnik, A.M. (1916-1998) “View with the Columns”  Oil on canvas,  image size 27” x 19”, 1950 yr. signed on reverse.  MoscowArt Gallery is proud to present a limited time collection of collectible Russian (Soviet) Impressionist paintings from the 1920s to the 1980s. Each work we are presenting is an original work, by a world famous Soviet artist, listed in Matthew Cullerne Bown’s “A Dictionary of Soviet Artists, 1920s to the 1980s”. Matthew Cullerne Bown is a leading British authority on Soviet Impressionist Art.   Currently Soviet Impressionist and Social Realist art is being auctioned at major auction houses such as Sotheby’s and Christies.   We offer this limited time collection on eBay at prices affordable to begin a collection of your own. Investing in such art is a commodity in itself since these works will double in prices and triple in years to come.   The condition of each work is superb for its age, please take a look at photos of the works and do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have prior to bidding. Please keep in mind that these works are many years old and therefore certain natural occurrences occur, however they have been incredibly kept up.   We will provide a certificate of authenticity for each work sold, including a known provenance for the original work.   THE FRAME PICTURED IS INCLUDED. We frame our pieces to give customers an idea of what the work looks like when it is beautifully framed. Our frames are included with your purchase.   Thanks for looking and good luck bidding. If you’d like additional information on each artist/work, let us know and we’d be happy to oblige as much as we can. Artist's Biography     Stadnik, Aleksandr Mikhailovich. (Born 1916) Talented Russian and Soviet Painter. Born in Pechenega, Kharkov pr. (Ukraine), 1916. Studied at Kharkov Art Institute until 1941. Active in Moscow. Began exhibiting 1941. Member of Grekov Studio 1945-61. Important shows include All-Union Art Exhibitions*, Moscow 1950.  Awarded Stalin Prize 1949 for participation in military diorama. Stadnik Alexander Mikhaylovich. Well-known painter of battle genre. Twice Stalin Prize winner: in 1948 for diorama “Crossing of the Dnieper-river by the Soviet army in 1943”(now – in the collection of the State Artillery Museum in Petersburg) and in 1952 for the picture “Meeting of the State Commetee of Defense”. Graduated from the city of Kharkov State Art Institute where he studied under the tutorship of S. Prokhorov. From 1941 he was fighting in the battlefields of the Second World War. Participated in capture of Berlin and storm of Reichstag in 1945. From 1946 – was working in the Grekov’s Studio of Military artists in Moscow. Created also the series of landscapes of Moscow area and number of portraits of his contemporaries.     Graduate of the High Art School, Member of the Union of Soviet Artists   Participant of All-Union Art Exhibitions. Owner of the title “Merited Artists of USSR” (Russia)   Works of the artist are represented at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and at the State Russian Museum (S. Petersburg).   Full Member or corresponding member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR. Owner of the title “People’s Artists of the USSR (Russia)”. Stalin’s or Lenin’s Prize Winner.   Grekov Studio: An art studio attached to the Red Army. Created in 1934 with the assistance of Defense Commissar Kliment Voroshilov and named after the battle-painter Mitrofan Grekov. During the 1930s the studio provided training for amateur artists within the ranks of the military; during the Second World War it was transformed into a studio for professional artists working on military subjects.   All-Union Art Exhibitions: The biggest regular national exhibition of soviet artists. Beginning from 1946 each two years, the great exhibition took place (mostly in Moscow, but sometimes in Leningrad). It was a final competition of artists that ended zonal and regional exhibitions all over the country. It was quite important for the artists to win the right to exhibit their works at the show because State museums and other Public Institutes used to buy paintings from there.     Stalin Prize: The Stalin prizes were inaugurated in 1939 to reward high achievement in the arts and sciences. The first prizes for painting were awarded in 1941. The prizes conferred considerable prestige and a large sum of money. All awards were agreed by Stalin and inevitably they had a strong political coloring. Igor Grabar headed the committee responsible for the painting prizes.     Stadnik, A.M. is sold all over the world and can be founded in private collections in Italy, Germany, Caracas, and United States.   Stadnik, A.M. is listed in the Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980 by Matthew Cullerne Bown.    Our policy:   Please ask all questions prior to bidding. If the item does not match our description, you have 3 days for a full refund, minus the shipping charges.   Although we do our best to protect your investment and therefore package the item to the best that we can, please consider insurance to protect yourself. Insurance is optional, but highly recommended.   FOR INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS: If you’d like to know the cost of shipment to your location, please give us your address or destination address for us to give you an estimate of the shipping charges.   We accept payment methods: checks, money orders, cashier's checks, and PayPal. Thank you and goodluck. Place a Bid!