Vitaly Gavrilovich Tikhov (Russian: Виталий Гаврилович Тихов; 14 February 1876,

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate, r=Kievskaya guberniya; uk, Київська губернія, Kyivska huberniia (, ) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It wa ...

- 1939,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) was a Russian painter, known primarily for his

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nudes. He was also a member of the

Peredvizhniki Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...

Biography

He received his primary education in

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. From 1901 to 1904, he took private lessons with Aleksandr Makovsky. In 1904, he had a major showing at the 33rd exhibition of the Peredvizhniki. That same year, he began auditing courses at the

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, where he studied with Aleksandr's father,

Vladimir Makovsky Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (russian: Влади́мир Его́рович Мако́вский; 26 January (greg.: 7 February) 1846, Moscow – 21 February 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian painter, art collector, and teacher. Biography Makovs ...

, and Ilya Repin.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. He left the school in 1912 and entered a competition there with several of his works. As a result, he was awarded the title of "Artist" and given a pension with permission to travel abroad. That same year, he and his friend Nikolai Fechin signed a petition urging Repin not to retire from the Academy. In 1916, he had another showing with the Peredvizhniki and participated as a full member in their 44th, 45th and 46th exhibitions. During the 1930s, he departed from his familiar themes to paint works of

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, depicting industrial workers, soldiers and sailors. He participated in the "Workers and Peasants Red Army" exhibitions of 1933 and 1938 at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute. In 2011, his painting "Купальщицы" (Bathers) was sold at auction for nearly seventeen million rubles, the fourth largest amount for an auctioned work of art that year.The Russian Auction House
third Moscow Auction.

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Tikhov.
@ Tutt'Art. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tikhov, Vitaly 1876 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Soviet painters People from Kiev Governorate Peredvizhniki Social realist artists 20th-century Russian male artists Painters from the Russian Empire