Ivan Diomidovich Chashnikov, Russian 1888-1971- At the Workers’ School, circa 1930; oil on canvas, inscribed in Cyrillic on the reverse, 100x80cm Provenance: Acquired from the artist’s family by the present owner in 1994. Note: Ivan Chashnikov was...

Ivan Diomidovich Chashnikov, Russian 1888-1971- At the Workers’ School, circa 1930; oil on canvas, inscribed in Cyrillic on the reverse, 100x80cm Provenance: Acquired from the artist’s family by the present owner in 1994. Note: Ivan Chashnikov was a representative of the senior generation of the Soviet artists. He studied first at Kazan Art School from 1904 to 1907. Following this he graduated from Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where he studied under the tutelage of Abram Arkhipov, Apollinary Vasnetsov, Konstantin Korovin and Sergei Malutin. During the Russian Civil war he lived in Barnaul (Altai), where was a member of the Altai Art Association (1918 — 1922). In 1922 he became a member of the Association of the Revolutionary Russia Artists, who devoted themselves to the depiction of 'A New Soviet life'. Siberia was a main theme of the artist’s work . Besides the custom-made subject paintings he also worked as a landscape artist. There is a great collection of his paintings in the State Art Museum, Altai collection.