460 - Gennady Subkov (Геннадий Субков), 3 oil paintings: On Ostrov Island (На острове Остров), Doing the Laundry in the Village (Стирка в деревне) & Two Boats (Две лодки)

Gennady Subkov (Геннадий Субков), 3 oil paintings: On Ostrov Island (На острове Остров), Doing the Laundry in the Village (Стирка в деревне) & Two Boats (Две лодки) Gennady Subkov (also Gennadi Zubkov), *1940 Perm, Russian painter, whose style is associated with the late Russian avant-garde and, in particular, the so-called ‘Sterligov Circle’ in St Petersburg; here: 3 oil paintings: On the Island of Ostrov (На острове Остров, oil on cardboard, 30 x 38 cm, signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse 1986 / Washing Clothes in the Village (Стирка в деревне), Cubist oil on canvas, 115 x 90 cm, signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse 1967-1988 & Two Boats (Две лодки), oil on canvas, 90 x 115 cm, signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse 1986-1988About the artist: Gennady Subkov studied at the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Arts at the Pedagogical Institute in St Petersburg until 1968. Between 1963 and 1973, Subkov became a close pupil of Vladimir Sterligov (1904-1973). Sterligov, in turn, was a direct pupil of the famous avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935). Under Sterligov, Subkov studied the concepts of Impressionism, Cubism, Suprematism and Mikhail Matyushin’s theory of colour. Drawing on Sterligov’s theory of ‘spherical geometry’, Subkov developed his own new painting technique. The underlying artistic philosophy conceives of the world as an indivisible and infinite whole. Paintings by Gennady Subkov can be found in the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, the A.S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and many more institutions.