Lot 100: VETROGONSKY, VLADIMIR

VLADIMIR ALEKSANDROVICH VETROGONSKY (RUSSIAN 1923-2002), A Pair of Linocut Prints illustrating Soviet scenes from the 1950s, a) 'U Martena', 1957, 48.5 x 67 cm (19 x 26 3/8) [sight], signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin 'V. Vetrogonsky 57', b) 'Utro', 49 x 65.6 cm (19 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.) [sight], signed and dated in pencil in the lower right margin V. Vetrogonsky 57, titled in the lower left and numbered 1 of an edition of 3. Vladimir Vetrogonsky was an important Social Realist artist and active illustrator, whose designs and illustrations were used in a myriad of publications. He started teaching at the Repin Institute in 1952, and was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graphic Arts in 1973. He would remain working as Dean at the Repin Institute until his death in 2002