The People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Igoshev was born in 1921 in Bashkiria. The future artist studied in Ufa and in Moscow at the Surikov Art Institute. In 1968 Igoshev eventually moved to Moscow and became a professor at Moscow Architectural Institute and Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Vladimir Igoshev worked in various genres: he painted portraits and self-portraits, worked on landscapes and genre paintings. In 1982 the artist won the State Prize of Russia named after I. E. Repin.
The painter visited the North for the first time in 1954. Its harsh nature and unknown and mysterious culture greatly impressed the artist. Later on he often went on expeditions with geologists to the far corners of the Northern Urals. In order to depict the beauty of the region in his paintings, the artist had to use helicopters, small planes and sleighs pulled by reindeer for transportation. The painter brought a lot of sketches from these expeditions, and some of the paintings were created en plein air. In such cases Igoshev usually painted on the cardboard set on the easel. The artist realistically depicted the colours and harmonious beauty of the northern nature.
The painting By the Gently Flowing River was created in 1975. The painter worked with the large brush and painted with quickly applied sketch-like brush strokes using cold green and blue colours with additions of warm sand colour. The painter donated this work to his friend and art collector, a Russian photographer and art historian Ivan Porto. Ivan Porto started to work as a photographer in the 1960s. For a long time he worked with the photography club Experiment and its managers, the famous photographers Yury Ryzhkov and Boris Bykov. Together with Yury Ryzhkov he taught the students, who are now the famous photographers, such as Nikolay Pavlenko and Sergey Kryukov. Ivan Porto passed away in Moscow on 7th October, 2009, and was buried at the Donskoy Cemetery.
Vladimir Igoshev worked in various genres: he painted portraits and self-portraits, worked on landscapes and genre paintings. In 1982 the artist won the State Prize of Russia named after I. E. Repin.
The painter visited the North for the first time in 1954. Its harsh nature and unknown and mysterious culture greatly impressed the artist. Later on he often went on expeditions with geologists to the far corners of the Northern Urals. In order to depict the beauty of the region in his paintings, the artist had to use helicopters, small planes and sleighs pulled by reindeer for transportation. The painter brought a lot of sketches from these expeditions, and some of the paintings were created en plein air. In such cases Igoshev usually painted on the cardboard set on the easel. The artist realistically depicted the colours and harmonious beauty of the northern nature.
The painting By the Gently Flowing River was created in 1975. The painter worked with the large brush and painted with quickly applied sketch-like brush strokes using cold green and blue colours with additions of warm sand colour. The painter donated this work to his friend and art collector, a Russian photographer and art historian Ivan Porto. Ivan Porto started to work as a photographer in the 1960s. For a long time he worked with the photography club Experiment and its managers, the famous photographers Yury Ryzhkov and Boris Bykov. Together with Yury Ryzhkov he taught the students, who are now the famous photographers, such as Nikolay Pavlenko and Sergey Kryukov. Ivan Porto passed away in Moscow on 7th October, 2009, and was buried at the Donskoy Cemetery.
