Sculptor Anatoly Grobov (born in 1942) collaborated with Ernst Neizvestny during the creation of Masks of Sorrow project as a formatter (he made forms from models). In 2013, he gifted a plaster portrait of Ernst Neizvestny that was made specifically for the museum.
The realistic manner in which the sculpture was created allows the viewer to see the master calm and focused. We see a professional in his field, who has come a long and difficult path, but has remained collected and ready for creativity and experience.
During the Soviet times, Anatoly Grobov worked as a formator in the Art Fund of the country. Already then, he managed to restore the student works of Ernst Neizvestny from the wreckage, namely: the high relief Yakov Sverdlov calls for an armed uprising of the Ural workers and the sculpture The First Meeting, or Joseph Stalin Introduces Lenin to Sverdlov. Now these sculptures are in the storehouse of Yekaterinburg History Museum. They are currently not available for public viewing.
Anatoly Grobov worked with Ernst Neizvestny and Arkady Groshev on the Masks of Sorrow in the 1990s. They created models of future sculptural compositions in Magadan and Yekaterinburg. The Magadan Mask of Sorrow was erected in 1996 in the form of a huge monument made out of reinforced concrete.
The history of the creation of the monument, dedicated to the victims of political repression in Yekaterinburg, takes almost a quarter of a century. The working model of the monument was brought by Ernst Iosifovich from New York; however, it was not possible to erect it for both financial and ideological reasons. Now the working model is presented in the exhibition of the Ernst Neizvestny Art Museum.
Masks of Sorrow: Europe - Asia were installed on November 20, 2017 at the 12th kilometer of the Moscow tract. The importance of this event was determined by the end of a whole stage of political reflections. By then, Ernst Neizvestny was no longer alive (he died in 2016). Anatoly Grobov attended the opening of the monument.
Currently, Anatoly Grobov continues his creative activity as a sculptor and formator. His workshop is located in the center of Yekaterinburg, in a small room of a residential building. In it, you can see the works of Grobov himself, for example, busts of Anna Akhmatova, Sergey Yesenin and even Boris Yeltsin, as well as gifts to the sculptor from Ernst Neizvestny: Crucifixion, graphic works.
The realistic manner in which the sculpture was created allows the viewer to see the master calm and focused. We see a professional in his field, who has come a long and difficult path, but has remained collected and ready for creativity and experience.
During the Soviet times, Anatoly Grobov worked as a formator in the Art Fund of the country. Already then, he managed to restore the student works of Ernst Neizvestny from the wreckage, namely: the high relief Yakov Sverdlov calls for an armed uprising of the Ural workers and the sculpture The First Meeting, or Joseph Stalin Introduces Lenin to Sverdlov. Now these sculptures are in the storehouse of Yekaterinburg History Museum. They are currently not available for public viewing.
Anatoly Grobov worked with Ernst Neizvestny and Arkady Groshev on the Masks of Sorrow in the 1990s. They created models of future sculptural compositions in Magadan and Yekaterinburg. The Magadan Mask of Sorrow was erected in 1996 in the form of a huge monument made out of reinforced concrete.
The history of the creation of the monument, dedicated to the victims of political repression in Yekaterinburg, takes almost a quarter of a century. The working model of the monument was brought by Ernst Iosifovich from New York; however, it was not possible to erect it for both financial and ideological reasons. Now the working model is presented in the exhibition of the Ernst Neizvestny Art Museum.
Masks of Sorrow: Europe - Asia were installed on November 20, 2017 at the 12th kilometer of the Moscow tract. The importance of this event was determined by the end of a whole stage of political reflections. By then, Ernst Neizvestny was no longer alive (he died in 2016). Anatoly Grobov attended the opening of the monument.
Currently, Anatoly Grobov continues his creative activity as a sculptor and formator. His workshop is located in the center of Yekaterinburg, in a small room of a residential building. In it, you can see the works of Grobov himself, for example, busts of Anna Akhmatova, Sergey Yesenin and even Boris Yeltsin, as well as gifts to the sculptor from Ernst Neizvestny: Crucifixion, graphic works.
