"Untitled" by Anatoly Treskin, 69 x 84 cm, 1971

Genre: Realism

Method: Oil on canvas

Year: 1971

Size: 115 x 120 cm

Artist: Treskin Anatoly Vladimirovich (1905, St. Petersburg - 1986, Leningrad). People's Artist of the RSFSR. Laureate of the State Prize. Winner of the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts. He graduated from the art and industrial technical school at VKHUTEMAS (teachers V.N. Kuchumov, V.A. Kuznetsov and D.I. Kiplik). In the pre-war years, he was involved in the restoration of picturesque decor in the Shuvalov, Yusupov, and Stroganov palaces. He painted workers' clubs, palaces of culture, and sanatoriums. After the war, he participated in the restoration of monumental paintings of the Mariinsky and Maly Opera theaters, halls of the Hermitage and the Russian Museum, park pavilions and palace halls of Oranienbaum, Tsarskoye Selo, cathedrals of Novgorod, Pskov and Suzdal. In the 1950-1970s. headed the restoration of the paintings of the Pavlovsk Palace. Treskin's works are in museums in St. Petersburg and private collections.