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SOLD! Andrei Afanasevich Egorov "Russian winter / On the way home", oil painting, 1920s

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Andrei Afanasevich Egorov or Jegorov (1878 Arrokkula by Reval/Tallinn/Estonia - 1954 Tallinn) was born into a family of Russian peasants living in Estonia (to that time - a part of the Russian Empire). In the beginning of the 1890s Egorov came to St. Petersburg, where he graduated the school for deaf-mutes. In 1896 he entered the Drawing School of OPKh where until 1901 he was a pupil of Y.F. Zioglinski. In 1897-98, due to lack of financial means, Egorov was forced to temporarily abandon his studies and work as a carpenter for a furniture factory. In 1902 he became an external student of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts; studied under V.E. Savinski, G.R. Zaleman, I.M. Tvorozhnikov. In 1909 he received a rank of an artist for his painting "In village" (reproduced in "Niva" magazine).
Andrei Egorov painted landscapes, genre scenes from village life and portraits. He made numerous trips to Russia, Sweden and Finnland. He exhibited at the academic exhibitions (1903, 1907), spring exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts (1908-1917), St. Petersburger Artists Society (1910-12, 1914), Artist Association (1911-1916), Society of Russian Watercolor Artists (1915/16), participated at the Exhibition of Russian artists in London (1913). After the October Revolution, the artist took part in the exhibitions of Kuindzhi-Society (1917, 1918), 46th Exhibition of "Itinerants" ("PEREDVIZHNIKI"), 1918, etc.
In 1919, as a volunteer, Egorov entered the 1st Mounted Army, and was active there as an artist in propaganda section. A grave illness forced him to demobilize and return to Estonia to his family. From 1921 he permanently lived in Estonia continuing to paint. In 1940, he became a naturalized Soviet citizen. He spent the WWII years in Ural region, returning to Estonia after the war.
Egorov's personal exhibition took place in Tallinn in 1948. Also in Tallinn, an exhibition marking a centennial of his birth took place in 1978.
Oil paintings of this artist are extremely rare for the art market, but his watercolors (mainly of winter landscapes) appear more and more at art auctions, achieving remarkable prices (see our additional images).

Our additional images show several works of this artist offered at international art auction market in the last years.

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Condition: good

Creation Year: 1920s

Measurements: UNFRAMED:40,0x33,0cm/15,7x13,0in FRAMED: 57,2x50,1cm/22,5x19,7in

Object Type: Framed oil painting

Style: 19th century Russian paintings

Technique: oil and tempera on cardboard

Inscription: signed: A Jegorov

Creator: Andrei Afanasevich Egorov

Creator Dates: 1878 Arrokkula-1954 Tallinn

Nationality: Estonian / Russian