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Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Still life with yellow flowers. 1957. Painting by Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky (1918-1994)

Still life with yellow flowers. 1957. Painting by Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky (1918-1994)

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky (1918-1994) was a member of the USSR Union of Artists, Moscow Union of artists, and an Honored Artist of Russia. He studied in the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts, where his teachers were such prominent Soviet painters, as Boris Ioganson and Alexander Osmyorkin. He graduated from Moscow State Art Institute of Surikov in 1942. Like many artists of the time, he participated in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky lived and worked in Moscow. His works are in the Tretyakov Gallery and the regional museums of Russia and former Soviet Union.

Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky (1918-1994). Skiers. 1950s

Skiers. 1950s. Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky (1918-1994)

In the USSR, more than anything was known his severe style painting “War correspondents” (State Tretyakov Gallery). However, the best in creativity of Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky – still lifes representing pictorial space of embodied harmonic world. Influenced by his teachers, among whom was Alexander Osmyorkin, he formed his own style in the Soviet art. The first and only lifetime personal exhibition of Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky took place in Moscow in 1969.

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

War correspondents. 1965

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Birthday. 1965

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Sketch with medals of M. Isakov. 1951

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Breakfast on the construction site

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Canvas. 1965

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

First day of a New Year. 1972

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Housewarming. 1977

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Model, listening to music. 1968. Painting by Nikich

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

On the Easter

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Red shelf. 1978

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Roses for astronauts. 1980

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Still Life with a camellia. 1966

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Still life with a poster of the exhibition of Favorsky. 1966

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Still life with grapes and toys. 1960

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

A bottle and newspaper still life

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Victory Salute. 1975

Soviet artist Anatoly Nikich-Krilichevsky

Violets. 1993. Oil on canvas

Just married. 1960s

Just married. 1960s

We were four sisters. 1985

We were four sisters. 1985

Spring still life. 1986

Spring still life. 1986