* TITLE: "Winter fairy tale"
* ARTISTS: Kovalevskaya Zinaida Mikhailovna
* SIZE: 48x72 cm/'18.89х28.34 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, canvas
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: good condition, you can see all edges, corners and the back side of the painting on the photos
* This item was auctioned in Kiev auction
About the artist: Artist - painter, teacher. Honored Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR (1953). People's artist of the Uzbek SSR (1964). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Zinaida Mikhailovna Kovalevskaya major artist, teacher, master of everyday genre, was born in 1902 in Volsk. Her father He was interested in art and ethnography. While working in the schools of Kazan, he gave students lectures on art. The artist P. P. Benkov, a well-known Central Asian art researcher prof. B. P. Denike, art critic P. E. Kornilov, historian-bibliographer P. M. Dulsky and others. Almost all of them visited Central Asia, studied its history, art and ethnography. In 1927, Kovalevskaya graduated from the Kazan Art College, where her teachers were N.I. Feshin and P.P. Benkov, who led the growth of her professional skills until the end of his life. The graduate work of Kovalevskaya “Soap factory” was acquired by the State Museum of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Still in 1926, the artist entered the Academy of Arts, went on creative business trips to the collective farms of Tatarstan, the Urals, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk and painted the paintings “Kindergarten”, “Gold smelting” "," Tatar laundress "," Pioneer "," Threshing on the collective farm ". These works are professionally not yet perfect, but they speak of the artist’s active interest in life. These paintings were exhibited at the AHRR exhibition in Kazan and Moscow and also became the property of the State Museum of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In the summer of 1930, Kovalevskaya was invited to Samarkand to work as an artist in the department of ethnography of the Uzbek State Research Institute (UzGNII). and art embroidery artisans “Woman's Labor”, Kovalevskaya studies the Uzbek national ornament, performs embroidery sketches. From trips she brings a lot of watercolor sketches, sketches of women and children. The work of artisans of the old city tells her the plot of the painting “Craftsman” (1932). The painting depicts a primitive handicraft industry and the hard work of an artisan unwinding cocoons. The artist saw fanatics and whoopers at the entrance to the necropolis of Shahi Zinda. She opposes the religious dope in the film “Dervishes deceive people” (1935). new in the life of the Uzbek people, she paints “In the Youth Brigade” about the enthusiasm of competing youth and “Oktyabrina.” She reveals the new look of the Uzbek woman in the paintings “In the Box” (1937), “The Winner of the Bike Ride” (1939), etc. . During the Great Patriotic War, Kovalevskaya, together with all the artists with all the strength of her talent, served the common cause of victory over the enemy. Already in 1941 she created a significant work "Young Badges", in 1942 - the painting "Come Back with Victory." Patriotism and the artist reflected the humanity of the Uzbek people in the film “In a New Family”, showing concern for the evacuated children. The last two paintings were exhibited at the All-Union Traveling Exhibition "Patriotic War" in Moscow, (December1942). Working fruitfully during the war years, the artist paints prompted by life itself. Thus was born the painting "Children Visiting the Wounded" (1943). the wounded are in a spacious ward in hospital beds. Together with the light of spring, the guys entered the wide open door, brought gifts and their genuine children's affection. The heaviest patient was surrounded with the greatest attention. Here is a compositional center. From here the artist leads the viewer deep into the picture to recovering wounded, who went for a walk, to the sun, to life. During the years of World War II, the picturesque language of Kovalevskaya became richer. The theme of her works has expanded. In 1943, she successfully defended an external diploma of the artist at the painting department of the Leningrad Art Institute. I.E. Repina. The creativity of Kovalevskaya in the postwar years is multifaceted and fruitful. One of the best post-war paintings “Masters of Folk Art” (1947) devotes the art of Uzbek embroiderers to Kovalevskaya. The prototypes for him were the long-familiar and beloved embroiderers from the Woman's Labor artel. On the stage of the vast courtyard of the artel, old craftswomen are discussing the design and quality of the suzane embroidery made by their young pupils. Girls with keen attention listen to the comments of the senior embroiderer, wise with experience and knowledge. So in the creative community creates a new work of folk art. The whole group is tightly tied to the finely written landscape surroundings. The ruins of the cathedral mosque of Ekbi-hanym closing the composition, as it were, emphasize the continuity of Soviet decorative art with the artistic traditions of the past. In this painting, the artist overcame the sketchy incompleteness often found in her previous works. The painting “Masters of Folk Art” received well-deserved recognition from Soviet and foreign viewers (in 1948 she exhibited at the exhibition “Soviet Woman in Art” in Paris).