Year 1979 Artist Alexander Semionov | Type Oil on board Created 1979 | |
Dimensions 70 cm × 60 cm (28 in × 24 in) Location private collection,
Russia Similar Portrait of Catherine Balebina, Cafe Gurzuf, Russian Winter Hoarfrost, Spring Day, House with Arch | ||
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Malaya Sadovaya Street is a 1979 oil painting by the Russian artist Alexander Semionov, depicting Malaya Sadovaya Street in Leningrad on rainy day of the end of the 1970s. This cityscape was painted in traditions of the Leningrad School of Painting and Soviet figurative painting of late socialist realism with their typical synthesis of realistic and impressionistic traditions to create an image of modernity.
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History
The painting is of special importance to the artistic reputation of Alexander Semionov. Created on the apex of his artistic career, five years before his death, it became one of his most famous works. In Malaya Sadovaya Street the artist presents the image of one of the most beautiful streets in the city, as well as a romantic and extremely attractive image of the Leningrad of the late of 1970s as at whole. In the painting Semionov convincingly conveyed a sense of time and place, the unhurried flow of Leningrad life.
Malaya Sadovaya Street was exhibited For the first time in 1987 at a posthumous exhibition of works by Semionov in the exhibition halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. The painting was then shown in towns around the Leningrad region. In 1994 the work was again exhibited in the exhibition halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists in the art show Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Leningrad School's Artists,. In 1996 the painting was exhibited at the art show Paintings of 1940-1990s from the Leningrad School, in Saint Petersburg in the Nikolay Nekrasov Memorial Museum. The painting was also reproduced on the cover of the exhibition catalog of the 1996 show.