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Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich (1924 - 2016) - Soviet and Russian painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Ivan Mikhailovich was born in 1924 into a peasant family, in the village of Nizhnyaya Loshiha, in the Smolensk region. From childhood entered his life and unhurried village life, and the concept of peasant labor on the ground. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Repin (1957), workshop of Yu.M. Neprintseva. Studied with V.G. Valtseva, I.P. Stepashkin. In 1963-1965 he was engaged in the creative workshop of A.A. Mylnikov.
Participated in exhibitions since 1957, exhibiting his works together with the works of the leading masters of the visual arts of Leningrad. He painted landscapes, genre compositions, thematic paintings, sketches from nature. In 1960 he became a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists. Master of landscape painting. The development went from the traditional plein-air painting towards impressionistic enrichment, generalization of form and some conventionality of composition.
In 1960-1980s Varichev worked a lot at the creative base of Leningrad artists in Staraya Ladoga. It is no coincidence that the theme of the ancient Volkhov, nature and rural life of Ladoga region became the leading one in the artist's work. Works of the 1970s-1980s nominated Varichev among the leading Leningrad masters of landscape painting. In 1983, Ivan Varichev was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 2005 - the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Full member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts.
The artist's works are in: the State Russian Museum, the Museum of the History of the City of St. Petersburg, in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad.

Работы

Past auctions

lot 111. «In the autumn forest», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 111. «In the autumn forest»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 48x33 cm, 1980

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lot 110. «Ladoga», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 110. «Ladoga»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 33x47.5 cm, 1970s

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«It is evening», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
«It is evening»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 34x47.5 cm, 1974

55 000 ₽

lot 114. «An evening in the village», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 114. «An evening in the village»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 40x50 cm, 1986

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«Portrait of a Woman», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
«Portrait of a Woman»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

oil on canvas, 53x43 cm, 1954

25 000 ₽

lot 188. «Windy Day», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 188. «Windy Day»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

oil on canvas, 46x51 cm, 1976

60 000 ₽

«Cleaning the hay», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
«Cleaning the hay»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

oil on canvas, 47.5x60.5 cm, 1962

70 000 ₽

«Winter evening», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
«Winter evening»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard, oil, 49x69 cm

60 000 ₽

Exhibitions

At the stack, Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
At the stack

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard / oil, 40x50 cm, 1960

At the barn. Old Ladoga, Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
At the barn. Old Ladoga

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 52x73 cm, 1960s

lot 113. «On the bridges», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 113. «On the bridges»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard/oil, 35x50 cm, 1980s

lot 50. «Village «Chernavino»», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 50. «Village «Chernavino»»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard, oil, 56x47 cm, 1986

lot 51. «In the field», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 51. «In the field»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard, oil, 41.5x50.5 cm

lot 52. «Veranda», Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
lot 52. «Veranda»

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

cardboard, oil, 70.5x50 cm

Near the old mill, Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich
Near the old mill

Varichev Ivan Mikhailovich

oil on cardboard, 50x70 cm, 1970s

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