Exhibitions Archive
Current Exhibition (January 2012)
VLADIMIR ZHUGAN: LANDSCAPES AND INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES
Born in 1926. Zhugan is a veteran of the Second World War. After the war he studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Art College. Graduated from it in 1951. He has been a participant of the local and national art shows since 1951. In 1964, he joined the Union of the Soviet Artists. Was awarded the title of an Honoured Artist of Ukraine. His art works were ...
June 2010
NORTH KOREAN POSTERS - A PRIVATE COLLECTION
This collection of 50 hand-painted, original posters offers a rare chance to enjoy the art of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Commonly known as North Korea, it is considered one of the world’s most closed societies. The posters express historical and socio-political messages, military orders and adverts for cultural events. They ...
July 2010
RARE REVOLUTIONARY CUBAN PRINTS BY MAJOR CUBAN ARTISTS FREMEZ AND VALDES
This month, ArtImport concentrates on the work of two of Cuba’s most renowned graphic artists, José Gómez Frequez (Frémez) and Luis Miguel Valdés Morales. A leading figure of Cuban and Latin American serigraphy at the end of the 1960s, Frémez’s work is best known for combining the media of printing, collage, poster art and cartoons with strong ...
August 2010
A COLLECTION OF SOCIALIST REALIST ALBANIAN PAINTINGS AND POLITICAL INK DRAWINGS BY LISTED ALBANIAN ARTISTS R.PERMETI, N.PROGRI, K.RAKA
This month ArtImport is proud to present one of the first exhibitions of Albanian Political and Socialist Realist art in London. Very little known or studied in the West, Albanian art of this genre draws interesting parallels with that of its long-standing political and ideological allies, The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. The ...
September 2010
SMALL SOVIET SOCIALIST REALIST PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS BY WELL KNOWN RUSSIAN ARTISTS
This month ArtImport is proud to present a rare collection of small Soviet Socialist Realist paintings, drawings and studies, dating from the early 1950s. Spanning a range of different media, these pictures cover many aspects of Soviet life, as played out in such arenas as the mines, factories, fields and battlefields. Molteninov’s painting ...
October 2010
VINTAGE CHINESE REVOLUTIONARY POSTERS AND RARE TERRACOTTA FIGURINES
This collection provides an idea of the styles and themes of propaganda posters and other art forms, produced in China after the birth of the Republic. The People's Republic of China (PRC), also known as Red China or Communist China, was proclaimed by Mao Zedong in 1949. The Chinese propaganda posters shown here are a collection of ...
November/December 2010
SOVIET SOCIALIST REALIST AND SOVIET IMPRESSIONIST PICTURES
This month ArtImport is proud to present in the run up to Christmas, a stunning private collection of Soviet Socialist Realist and Soviet Impressionist paintings from the 1930s and up to the 1980s, from some of the most famous artists of the former USSR. Painters include Mikhail Bozhi, Iosif Gurvich, Boris Pastoukhoff, Willie Mokrozhitski, ...
January 2011
GEORGYI CHIGANOV WATERCOLOURS
Watercolours hold a prominence in G.Chiganov's works. His watercolour landscapes are evidence of the ingeniousness of his perception, his expansive and vigorous style, his ability to perceive the charm of his native Kazhakstan, and his passion for his environment. No matter in which part of the USSR he is in, the distant Kola Peninsula or the ...
February 2011
CHILDREN AND THE IDYLL IN SOVIET PAINTING
This month ArtImport brings you for sale, works from two separate important private collections, accumulated with care over the years, one from the UK and one from France. One consists of the work of important Ukrainian artists, mostly born in the early twentieth century, such as Besedin, Yarovoi, Mischenko and Yanchak. The other, is made ...
March 2011
SASHA GANELIN & ROBERT PERMETI - LANDSCAPES FROM SIBERIA AND ALBANIA, BY TWO SOCIALIST REALIST TRAINED ARTISTS
Sasha Ganelin was born in Moscow in 1957. When he was five years old he started to draw historical events that filled the world of his childhood. At that time he already knew his life would be dedicated to art. A year later he took painting lessons in the Russian capital so his extraordinary talent got properly developed and he received ...
April/May 2011
OLD VIETNAMESE POLITICAL POSTERS
This month ArtImport is proud to present a unique collection of 45 original posters from famous Vietnamese collectors of many years. These vintage political proganda posters were mostly painted during the war in Vietnam (1945 - 1975) and were not individually signed as paintings. Some of these posters are older than others and some are in ...
June 2011
MASABIKH AKHUNOV: THE LINOCUT MASTER OF SOVIET RUSSIA
Masabikh Fatkhlislamovich Akhunov was born in the village Verkhne-Moncharova in Bashkiria. He reinvented the linocut media in the 1960's, last taken seriously by the Russian/Soviet avantgarde of the 1920's. Utilizing his masterful command of the media's technique and his creative approach to the opportunities in the media, he set new standards for ...
July 2011
RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN MASTERS
This exhibition features fascinating Soviet paintings from as early as the 1940s and the 1950s from Ukraine and Russia. Artists include Galaganov, Mikita, Loboda, Lopukhov and many others. Themes include military scenes, portraits, still life and industry. Most of the paintings in this collection have not been exhibited before in the UK and most ...
August 2011
SVIATOSLAV DEREKA PAINTINGS
The paintings of an outstanding Ukrainian master Sviatoslav Dereka (born 1948) are inspired by the Russian avant-garde (first quarter of the 20th century) and Ukrainian folk art. A blend of cubism and futurism, fauvism and primitivism, along with native village painting, characterises Dereka’s bold, colourful style. His works were inspired by the ...
September 2011
GEORGIAN MASTERS
ArtImport is proud to present the works of five masters of Georgian art from the 20th and 21st centuries: Gia Bughadze, Vladimir Kandelaki, Zurab Nijaradze, Korneli Sanadze and Robert Sturua Snr. Due to its history and location on the border of Europe and Asia, Georgian art is rich and diverse. Professor Korneli Sanadze’s landscapes and ...
October 2011
GRYGORI SHYSHKO: INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPES
Grygori Shyshko was born in 1923 in Kostromka, Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. On graduation from Odessa Art College in 1953, he joined the Kryvyi Rih Union of Artists, with whom he first exhibited locally and regionally in 1954, when he also started work at the Kryvyi Rih branch of Dnipropetrovsk Art Fund, where he eventually became head of its ...
November/December 2011
FERMIN ROCKER: CITY LIFE
Fermin Rocker was born on December 22nd, 1907. He was the son of Rudolf Rocker, the renowned anarchist leader. He was raised in the East End of London before WWI. In 1918 he moved with his family to Berlin and studied graphic art. In 1929 he moved again to New York, this time working as an illustrator for magazines, newspapers, books and films. ...
February 2012
SOVIET POSTERS: AUTHENTIC POSTER ART AND COPIES FROM THE ORIGINALS
Soviet realism was based around the art of the public poster. Posters were everywhere, the walls of schools, in hospitals and factories. They were persuasive and didactic. They were specifically aimed at the uneducated masses of farmers, soldiers and workers, but also targeted the young and embraced the party faithful. The true comparison with ...
