504 - Vladimir Igorevich Zagorov (Владимир Игоревич Загоров), 2 oil paintings from the 1980s

Vladimir Igorevich Zagorov (Владимир Игоревич Загоров), 2 oil paintings from the 1980s Vladimir Igorevich Zagorov (Vladimir Igorevich Tolstoy) *1951 Krasnodar - lives and works in St Petersburg, renowned Russian painter, shown here: 3 Musicians (Три музыканта), oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm, signed, inscribed and dated on the reverse. 87 & Untitled (Без названия), oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm, signed and dated on the reverse 1983-88, both mounted on simple wooden artist’s stretcher framesAbout the artist: After graduating from the painting school at the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (class in mural painting under Andrei Mylnikov), Vladimir Igorevich Zagorov taught at the ‘Alexander von Stieglitz’ State Academy of Art and Design in St Petersburg from 1987 to 1991. The artist describes himself as a realist who depicts a very personal kind of reality - his own. The main means by which Zagorov conveys his perception of this reality are colour and light; he uses them to modulate figurative and abstract forms, to vary the decorative effect and to create emotionally powerful visual worlds. Major exhibitions: 1997 “The Yellow Movement” (The Russian State Museum, St Petersburg 2012 “Without barriers” (The Russian State Museum, St Petersburg);2014 “Playing Circus” (The Moscow Museum of Modern Arts); 2015 “Alongshore Travel”, solo exhibition (The Museum of Modern Arts, The Collection in Tsarskoe Selo (Tsarskosel’skaia Collection), Pushkin, St Petersburg); “New Avant-garde from Russia” (Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf);