COLLECTION
- Barganov
- Mogilevsky
- Osipova
- Abram Arkhipov
- Abram Veksler
- Aleksandr Gerasimov
- Alexander Samokhvalov
- Alexander Laktionov
- Alexei Belykh
- Alexsandr Bubnov
- Alexsandr Deyneka
- Alexsei Gritsai
- Alexsei & Sergei Tkachev
- Anatoli Yar-Kravchenko
- Anatoly Nikolaevich Gankevich
- Aristarkh Lentulov
- Arkady Plastov
- Dashi Namdakov
- Elena Yanson-Manizer
- Evsey Moiseenko
- Fedot Sychkov
- Filipp Malyavin
- Fyodor Reshetnikov
- Gavriil Gorelov
- Gely Mikhailovich Korzhev
- Igor Obrosov
- Igor Popov
- Igor Grabar
- Ilya Repin
- Joseph Chaikov
- K E Rakityanskiy
- Kasli Factory
- Konstantin Korovin
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- Mai Volfovich Dantsig
- Matvej Manizer
- Meer Aizenstadt
- Mikhail Platunov
- Mikhail Vrubel
- Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov
- N Krandievskaya
- Nikolai Fechin
- Nikolai Andronov
- Nikolai Baskakov
- Nikolai Kozhanov
- Nikolai Roerich
- Oleg Komov
- Pavel Nikonov
- Petr Konchalovsky
- Petr Ossovsky
- Sarah Lebedeva
- Semon Chuykov
- Serge Yourievitch
- Sergei Konenkov
- Sergey Grigoryev
- Sergey Mikhailovich Orlov
- Tahir Salahov
- Tatiana Yablonskaya
- Tatyana Kopnina
- V A Govoruhin
- Valentin Alexandrovich Serov
- Vasily Nechitailo
- Vera Mukhina
- Victor Ivanov
- Victor Vasnetsov
- Viktor Popkov
- Vladimir Gavrilov
- Vladimir Masik
- Vladimir Serov
- Vladimir Stozharov
- Vladimir Fedorovich Tokarev
- Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich
- Yuri Kugach
- Yuriy Lvovich Chernov
- Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova
On the beach
1964
This bold composition shows a mother embracing her younger child at the seaside as the older child looks on whilst holding a toy boat. The monumental and almost heroic nudity is representative of the Socialist Realist style and, in particular the works of his teacher Petrov-Vodkin as well as Alexander Deyneka.
TECHNIQUE
Oil on canvas
MEASUREMENTS
89cm x 75cm
Alexander Samokhvalov
1894 - 1971
Samokhvalov was a member of the Leningrad School of Painting. In 1914 enrolled in the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Pertsburg and, amongst others, one of his teachers was Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In 1917 he took part in the exhibition of the Mir Iskusstva. He had significant success with his images heroes of labour and sport. In 1967 he was awarded the Order of Lenin.
