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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Prokhorov
Young engineers
1955

About the Item

Painted by one of the USSR's distinguished impressionist painters after the second world war. About the Artist: Konstantin Prokhorov was born in Karavaevo, Vladimir region, in 1924. He studied at the Palekh Art College, the Ivanovo Art College (1940-1942, 1945-1946) and the N. Samokish Simferopol Art College in 1946-’48, where he then worked as a teacher until 1954. At the same time he took distant education courses at the Repin Leningrad Institute of Art. He became a member of the Union of Artists in 1948. In 1955-58, he was the head of the Crimea Regional section of the Artists’ Union of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, since 1989 – the chairman of the military commission of the Moscow section of the Artists’ Union. Prokhorov is active in Simferopol, Crimea and also in Orudeva, near Dmitrov, Moscow region. He paints both the landscapes of his native northern Russia as those of the Ukrainian Crimea. Prokhorov took part in several important All-Union exhibitions (since 1955) and had personal exhibitions in 1956, 1957, 1972, 1980 and 1982 in Moscow, Kiev and Simferopol. In 2002 and 2005 his works were exhibited in the Lower and Upper Chambres of the Russian Parliament, and at the Federation Council. His paintings can be found in the museums of Sevastopol, Simferopol, Serpukhov, Dmitrov and Moscow and were acquired by the Russian and Ukrainian Ministries of Culture and private collectors in Russia and abroad. Prohkorov is a Merited Artist of the Ukraine since 1960 and of the Russian Federation since 1997. Literature: A dictionary of twentieth century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900 - 1980's, Matthew Cullerne Bown, London 1998; Vystavka zhivopisi Konstantina Prokhorova: Sever i pamyatniki drevnogo zodchestva (Exhibition of Konstantin Prokhorov: the north and its old architecture), Moscow 1979 Note: his painting Schooners in the Harbour (1955) was reproduced in the 1994 Douwes Fine Art Russian Paintings catalogue; The Vintage (1963) and Fieldflowers on a Window-sill (1987) in the 1995 catalogue, Overlooking the Sea at Artek (1958) and Young Engineers (1955) in the 2003 catalogue, In the Vineyard (1955) in the 2004 catalogue; The Crimea: Swallows Nest (1959) in the 2006 catalogue; Grape-pickers (1957) in the 2007 catalogue; his paintings Repairing the Jetty (1966) and Grape Harvest (1956) were reproduced in the Douwes Fine Art catalogue "... A World of Art..." in painting and sculpture. A choice selection 2008-2009, pages 24 and 26

Creator:
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Prokhorov (1924, Russian)
Creation Year:
1955
Dimensions:
Height: 14.18 in (36 cm)Width: 23.82 in (60.5 cm)
Medium:
Board
Movement & Style:
Impressionist
Period:
20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Amsterdam, NL
Reference Number:
Seller: DFA#00491stDibs: LU35931088553