Boris Sholokhov

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Boris Anatolyevich Sholokhov (

Pyotr Ivanovich Sholokhov, and a candidate of art criticism, whose artworks are stored in the Tretyakov Gallery
in Moscow.

Biography

Boris Anatolyevich Sholokhov was born in Borisoglebsk in the Voronezh Oblast. He was a gifted Russian artist - master of the portrait, landscape, and the nude genre.

Originally, he studied under the leadership of his uncle, the renowned artist of the 1930s

the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and ended his studies at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute of V. I. Surikov
with teachers including S. Chuykov, V. Yakovlev, A. Gritsaya, and also teachers D. Corin and D. Oreshnikov.

Boris Anatolyevich taught at Moscow State University of Printing Arts of I. Fedorov. The participant of many All-Union and personal exhibitions (since 1950).[1]

Sholokhov's works are stored in

the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, in a collection of the Moscow Art Institute of Surikov, in the museum of children's camp "Artek" in Crimea, and in the art museums of Penza and Voronezh, and also - Borisoglebsk and Livadiya.[2]

Bibliography

"The Artist and Time" (2014): where he frankly tells about the time of participation in the Great Patriotic War, giving advice to beginner painters.

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