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Front cover: Andrey Demin ‘Lake Lucerne’ (detail) oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm (16 x 23.5 in)
RU S S I A N PA I N T I N G S 2 0 1 5 Recent works by
Yuri Pavlov Andrey Demin page 2 page 8
Maria Stcherbinina Dmitry Lisichenko page 26 page 28
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Y U R I PAV L OV An internationally collected artist, Yuri Pavlov was born in Moscow in 1964 into the family of the artist G. Pavlov. He graduated from the Moscow Art School in 1981 and the Art-Graphic Faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1986. From 1982 Yuri was a frequent participant in Moscow, Republican, All-Union and international exhibitions. He joined the Union of Young Artists and Art Critics of the Russian Federation in 1988 and became a Scholarship winner of the Union of Artists of the USSR from 1989 to 1991. Pavlov finds inspiration at the Hermitage Collection, St Petersburg in the works of Rembrandt, Zurbaran, Giotto and Pisanello. He is also hugely interested in archaeology and history, but as a perception rather than a science. From the artist’s book “Pilgrim”.
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Yuri Pavlov ‘Tram Stop’ oil on canvas 50 x 100 cm (19.75 x 39.25 in)
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Yuri Pavlov ‘Debris’ oil on canvas 35 x 50 cm (13.75 x 19.5 in)
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Yuri Pavlov ‘Downfall of the Empire’ oil on canvas 51 x 101 cm (20 x 39.75 in)
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Yuri Pavlov ‘Hubert Robert’s Island’ (detail)
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Yuri Pavlov ‘Hubert Robert’s Island’ oil on canvas 40 x 80 cm (15.75 x 31.5 in)
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ANDREY DEMIN Born in 1962 into the family of a famous Russian artist, Leonid Demin, Andrey Demin was sent as a ten year old to art school where, surrounded by more experienced artists, he worked mainly on still life paintings. This experience influenced Demin’s work right from the start.As he says himself, ‘I saw my first paintings even before I could walk. I communicated with professional painters even before I learnt to talk.What else could I have become, if not an artist?’ Now widely exhibited, Demin began displaying his work in Medici Gallery in Mayfair, London, in the late 1990s. His travels across the UK, Russia, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland have influenced his landscape painting. He is particularly inspired by the beauty of the British and Irish landscape. As befits an artist trained in the traditional Russian Impressionist style, his canvases are swathed in light. The misty colours of picturesque countryside lend themselves perfectly to Demin’s atmospheric depictions of nature.These serene landscapes have a wistful air of innocence. That these beautiful paintings are straightforward and extremely well-painted perhaps contributes to Demin’s success – his paintings are widely exhibited and collected, both within the UK and internationally.
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Andrey Demin ‘Amber Evening’ oil on canvas 23.5 x 34 cm (20 x 22 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Early Spring, Abramtsevo’ oil on canvas 30 x 24.5 cm (12 x 9.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Early Spring’ oil on canvas 100 x 120 cm (39 x 47 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Into the Sea’ oil on board 34 x 50 cm (13.25 x 19.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Brighton’ oil on canvas 84 x 124 cm (33 x 49 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Colourful Donegal’ oil on canvas 35 x 40 cm (13.75 x 15.75 in) Andrey Demin ‘Harbour’ oil on canvas 60 x 50 cm (23.5 x 19.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Interlaken’ oil on canvas 21 x 35.5 cm (8.25 x 14 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Swiss Landscape, Interlaken’ oil on canvas 21 x 35.5 cm (8.25 x 14 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Lake Lucerne’ oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm (16 x 23.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Lake Zurich’ oil on canvas 22.5 x 49.5 cm (9 x 19.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Yachts’ oil on canvas 30 x 45 cm (12 x 17.75 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Yachts, Cyprus’ oil on canvas 17.5 x 25 cm (7 x 10 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Russian Monastery’ oil on canvas 25 x 35 cm (10 x 13.75 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Quiet Morning’ oil on board 27.5 x 42 cm (11 x 16.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Zagorsk Monastery’ oil on board 35.5 x 47 cm (14 x 18.5 in)
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Andrey Demin ‘Zagorsk’ oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm (15.75 x 23.5 in)
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MARIA STCHERBININA Maria Stcherbinina was born into an artistic family in Moscow in 1965. She studied painting at the Moscow University of Design, the famous institute founded by Sergei Stroganov. The school retained much of the influence of Lissitzky, Kandinsky and Malevich, who had transformed it in the 1920s. Stcherbinina developed a light, luminous palette, often combined with impasto passages to create her characteristic sense of movement. After her graduation, Stcherbinina was soon exhibiting her work in famous Russian galleries. In 2000, she started exhibiting her works internationally. Now she is a regular exhibitor at Medici Gallery, and has contributed to a number of group exhibitions in Switzerland, Ireland and the UK.
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Maria Stcherbinina ‘Bright Morning’ oil on canvas 70 x 80 cm (27.5 x 31.5 in)
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D M I T RY L I S I C H E N KO Dmitry Lisichenko was born into a musical family in Moscow in 1976. He trained at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute, attended the Moscow Art Lyceum, and later the Moscow State Academic Art Institute (known as the Surikov Art Institute), where he came under the influence of distinguished professors, Eugeny Maximov and Ivan Lubennikov. He initially worked on restoring the murals in Moscow Cathedral. An artist and lover of art since childhood, over time he developed his delicate, romantic style. Lisichenko’s pieces are often of elegant, mysterious women in atmospheric surroundings and he uses a distinctive palette of soft, pastel shades. His paintings follow in the tradition of the Russian Romantic Realists, and he describes his style as Neo - Realism. Lisichenko’s work is represented through Medici Gallery and collected internationally. His paintings are widely held in collections in Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Japan and America, as well as Russia and the UK.The quality and the technical mastery of Lisichenko’s paintings means that his work is much admired and collected.
Dmitry Lisichenko ‘Mocco’ oil on canvas 60 x 45 cm (23.5 x 17.75 in)
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Dmitry Lisichenko ‘Europe’ oil on canvas 40 x 70 cm (15.75 x 27.5 in) Dmitry Lisichenko ‘In Her Secret Life’ oil on canvas 60 x 40 cm (23.5 x 15.75 in)
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Back cover: Dmitry Lisichenko ‘Europe’ (detail) oil on canvas 40 x 70 cm (15.75 x 27.5 in)
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