1927 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

Events

• Regular Exhibition of the A. Kuindzhi Society is opened in the premises of the Society of Art Promotion. Participants: Piotr Buchkin, Yefim Cheptsov, Alfred Eberling, Alexander Lubimov, Arcady Rylov, Mikhail Platunov, Vasily Savinsky, Vasily Svarog and others.
• First Exhibition of the Association of artists Circle of Artists is opened at the State Russian Museum. Participants: Sergei Chugunov, Vasily Kuptsov, Vladimir Malagis, Alexei Pakhomov, Alexander Rusakov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Mikhail Verbov, and others.
• March 1 — Exhibition of works by artists of group «Jack of Diamonds» (, also called as «Knave of Diamonds») was opened in Moscow in the Tretyakov gallery. Exhibited 72 works of 8 authors. The participants were Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Alexander Kuprin, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, and Robert Falk.

Image:Larionov self portrait.jpg|Mikhail Larionov Image:Natalia Sergeyevna Goncharova.jpg|Natalia Goncharova Image:Konchalovsky self.jpg|Pyotr Konchalovsky Image:Aristarkh Lentulov Self-portrait 1913.jpg|Aristarkh Lentulov Image:Ilya Mashkov by Boris Grigoriev.jpg|Ilya Mashkov Image:V. Rozhdestvensky by P. Konchalovsky (1912).jpg|Vasily Rozhdestvensky Image:Robert Falk - Self Portrait Against a Window (1916).jpg|Robert Falk

• A monument to Vladimir Lenin was unveiled in Leningrad in front of Smolny. Author of the monument sculptor V. Kozlov and architects V. Shchuko and V. Gelfreykh.
• March 17 — Exhibition of works by group of «Masters of Analytical Art» (also called as «Group of Pavel Filonov») was opened in Leningrad in the House of Press. The participants were Vladimir Avlas, Sofia Zaklikovskaya, Evgeny Kibrik, Pavel Kondraniev, Lydia Frokova-Bagreeva, and others.
• Sculptor Ivan Shadr (1887–1941) created sculpture «Stone as a weapon of the proletariat». The original plaster reside in the Tretyakov Gallery. Bronze version (1947) was unveiled in Moscow in 1967.

Births

• January 13 — Boris Kharchenko (), Russian soviet painter and art educator (d.1985).
• March 29 — Zlata Bizova (), Russian soviet painter.
• May 17 — Vladimir Sakson (), Russian soviet painter and theatre artist (d.1988).
• June 17 — (), Russian soviet painter (d.2008).
• June 20 — Vecheslav Kotionochkin (), Russian soviet artist-animator and producer (d.2000).
• November 7 — Piotr Litvinsky (), Russian soviet painter and art educator (d.2009).

Deaths

• May 26 — Boris Kustodiev (), Russian painter and graphic artist (b.1878).

Image:Kustodiev self portrait.jpg|Boris Kustodiev

References

Sources

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References

1. Sergei V. Ivanov. The Leningrad School of Painting. Essays on the History. St Petersburg, ARKA Gallery Publishing, 2019. C.399.
2. (1927). "Выставка произведений художников группы "Бубновый валет"". Галерея знаний и ©клад Искусств.
3. ''Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.'' Saint-Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.381.