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Portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky

Creation period
1941
Place of сreation
Moscow, the USSR
Dimensions
60x45 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
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Andrey Borisovich Yumashev was a test pilot, Air Force Major General, Hero of the Soviet Union and an artist by vocation. As a young man he attended courses at the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in Saint Petersburg and dreamed of becoming an architect. His fate was changed by the revolution: at 16, Andrey joined the army, participated in the Russian Civil War, graduated from two flying schools. At 23, Yumashev designed the Yu-1 glider and soon set two all-Union records.

In July 1937, as part of Mikhail Gromov’s crew, co-pilot Andrey Yumashev made a non-stop flight Moscow — North Pole — San Jacinto. They set a world record for a direct flight range of 10,148km. When the Soviet pilots were introduced to US President Franklin Roosevelt, their conversation lasted for an hour, and the Secretary of State remarked,
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What pleasant, intelligent young men! No work of diplomats could have done in 10 years what you have done with your flight to bring the peoples of the Soviet Union and America closer together.
Franklin Roosevelt
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All that time, Andrey Yumashev never parted with his pencil and notebook. Before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, he took painting lessons from Robert Falk, studying composition and the interpretation of nature. At the end of 1941, Yumashev flew to Moscow from the front for a short while and came into the workshop at 10 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. Pyotr Konchalovsky asked the heroic pilot to pose in his flight uniform for a large portrait. The artist wanted to raise the patriotic morale of the people by depicting a handsome, stately combat pilot with awards on his chest. The portrait is now in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.
 
During the sitting, Konchalovsky gave Andrey Borisovich a canvas and paints so he wouldn’t get bored. They began to create together: the artist and the pilot painted portraits of each other at the same time. In just one hour, Yumashev painted an impressive portrait of Konchalovsky, staring into the pilot’s features through his glasses. Yumashev proved himself as a skilful artist with a mastery of tonal painting.
 
After the war, Andrey Yumashev retired to the reserves and devoted himself to creative work. In 1946, he was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR. Yumashev traveled around Central Asia, making studies and sketches of Samarkand, Bukhara and portraits of people. The artist said that “there is something in common between painting and aviation — in the audacity and irrevocability of decisions”. Yumashev had five personal exhibitions, the last of them — in the year of his death, in the Obninsk City Museum. It was then that the artist donated a portrait of Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky to the museum.
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Portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky

Creation period
1941
Place of сreation
Moscow, the USSR
Dimensions
60x45 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
3
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