Art World of Afanasy Osipov

Afanasy Osipov is a Yakut painter, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of the USSR, and winner of the Ilya Repin State Prize of the RSFSR. The exhibition presents paintings created by him at different times. Here visitors can see the first works dedicated to the Far North and the daily life of the Northern peoples, bright experimental paintings of sports subjects, intimate and ceremonial portraits of ordinary people and famous contemporaries, as well as monumental and lyrical landscapes created by the artist in mature years with mountain ranges, valleys, and lakes painted in different countries.