Soviet artist Alexander Laktionov
Soviet artist Alexander Laktionov – Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958), Corresponding Member (1949), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1969), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1948) and the RSFSR State Prize of Repin (1971). Laktionov was a versatile artist, he was equally good at genre paintings, portraits and landscapes. Actually, it would be enough for him even one painting to remain forever in the history of painting, and in the country’s history. When his painting of 1947 “Letter from the Front” appeared on the show, there was an amazing event, which for a long time did not know Russian art. To a large exhibition, many viewers came for one picture. To it was devoted more than half of entries in the exhibition guest book. Soon the picture took place at the Tretyakov Gallery, the artist received the Stalin Prize for it, and its reproduction dispersed throughout the country, making name of Laktionov well-known.
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