Mikhail Turovsky (b.1933) - Mid 20th Century Lithograph Nude with Sun Hat

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A very fine original lithograph with silkscreen elements depicting a young woman, nude from the waist up by the well-listed Ukrainian-American artist Mikhail Turovsky (b.1933). She wears a pretty sun hat and stockings. The figure is set against an evocative red backdrop. Signed to the lower right in graphite. Inscribed in graphite with the print number 64/200. On paper.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some very minor discolouration and foxing. There is a watermark to the lower corner of the paper.

Size

58 x 38cm (22.8" x 15")
Framed Size: 73 x 53cm (28.7" x 20.9")

Artist Biography

Mikhail Turovsky is an American-Ukrainian painter, and writer-aphorist, resident in New York City since 1979. Born in 1933 in Kyiv, during the Second World War he was evacuated to Samarkand with his mother and an older brother. Although over the draft age, his father volunteered for active duty and was killed in action in 1943. Turovsky attended the art school in Samarkand, his classmates included Ilya Kabakov.

Turovsky returned to Kyiv in 1944 and continued his studies at the Shevchenko State Art School. He later graduated from Kyiv Art Institute, where he studied under Tetyana Yablonska in 1960. He continued his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Academy of Art from 1965 until 1968.

Turovsky commenced a prolific creative career in 1957, participating in numerous exhibitions of Ukrainian art in Kyiv, Moscow, as well as in many traveling exhibitions to Europe and Latin America. In 1962 he became a member of the Union of Artists of USSR. Turovsky emigrated with his family to the USA in 1979 and he resumed his work there. His career developed rapidly and his international reputation grew as he exhibited in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Venice, Arles and other cities in Europe.

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SKU rn276
Artist Mikhail Turovsky (b.1933)
Date Mid 20th Century
Dimensions 58 x 38cm
Medium Lithograph
Style Postimpressionism
Subject Nudes
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