SOLD 22 1/2" x 29" oil on canvas signed $9,000
SOLD
1917 – 1988
Krylov was born in Russia and studied at the Kostroma Art College until 1937.
He was a member of the Union of Soviet Artists from 1944 and began exhibiting in the same year. He participated in important exhibitions throughout his career including: “The Painters of Povolzhe” 1958; “Great Volga River” Kuibyshev, 1964; “All-Russia Art Exhibition” Moscow, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1957; “All-Union Art Exhibition Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution” Moscow, 1957; “Second All-Union Poster Exhibition” Moscow, 1963.
He was a Laureate of the Stalin Prize for his series of paintings on shock workers.
He is listed on page 171 of Matthew Bown's, A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian and Soviet Painters.
