Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov
Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov (1885-1947) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator active in Soviet Avant-garde arts activity.
Also recorded as Mikhail Solokov
Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov
Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov · О театре (1922) · Public domain
- Name
- Mikhail Sokolov
- Birth Name
- Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov
- Born
- 6 September 1885
- Birthplace
- Yaroslavl, Russian Empire
- Died
- 29 September 1947
- Place of death
- Moscow, Soviet Union
- Field
- Painting
- Training
- Yaroslavl Art School Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
- Movement
- Russian avant-garde Graphics Illustration
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Occupation
- painter · graphic artist · illustrator
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Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov (1885-1947) was a Russian painter, graphic artist and illustrator active in Soviet Avant-garde arts activity.
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• Name — Mikhail Sokolov • Birth Name — Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov • Born — 6 September 1885 • Birthplace — Yaroslavl, Russian Empire • Died — 29 September 1947 • Place of death — Moscow, Soviet Union • Field — Painting • Training — Yaroslavl Art School Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry • Movement — Russian avant-garde Graphics Illustration
Biography
Biography
Sokolov studied at the Yaroslavl Art School and from 1904 to 1907 he studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry. He then spent two years in the Imperial Baltic Fleet. His first exhibition was through participation in the Mir iskusstva (World of Art) exhibition of 1917. This showed the influence of the French art from the late 19th and early 20th century. Sokolov taught at the studios in Tver (1920-1922) whilst also taking on graphic work. This included work for Тверской издательство (Tver Publishing House), which was privatised following the introduction of the New Economic Policy. Prior to 1938, he worked as a teacher at various places including the Institute of Advanced Training of Artists and Designers. However in 1938, Sokolov put on trial and sentenced in march to seven years in Siberian labour camps. He was released early in 1943 owing to sickness and settled in Rybinsk.
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Gallery
• Illustration — Book cover (1923): O Teatre (Tver) anthology • Illustration — Book cover (1923): Literary Portraits: One Hundred Poets (Tver) by Boris Gusman
Personal life
Personal life
He was married three times: to Nadezhda Shtemberg from 1917 to 1919, to Marina Baskakova from 1927 to 1935, to Nadezhda Vereshchagina-Rozanova in 1947.
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On origins, the institutional record states the following. Sokolov died in 1947 at Moscow. The same evidence establishes that mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov was born in 1885 at Yaroslavl.
Mikhail Sokolov, Winter Landscape, early 1940s, oil on plywood, 25,7 x 37,8 cm, Lavrov family collection, Moscow
Mikhail Sokolov · Homage to Savitsky. Collecting 20th-Century Russian and Uzbek Art. Stuttgart 2015, p. 158.
Mikhail Sokolov, Still-life with Red and Pink Flowers, 1940s, oil on canvas, 54,5 x 61 cm, Nukus, Savitsky Museum
Mikhail Sokolov · Homage to Savitsky. Collecting 20th-Century Russian and Uzbek Art. Stuttgart 2015, p. 157.
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