On March 12, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of painter Pyotr Konchalovsky was put into postal circulation

Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956) was a Russian and Soviet painter, an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947), a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1946), and a winner of the Stalin Prize, First Grade (1943).

Pyotr Konchalovsky was born on February 9 (21) of 1876 in Slavyansk of the Kharkov Province. He studied at the Kharkov Drawing School, evening classes at the Stroganov Art and Industry School, the Académie Julian in Paris, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

During World War I, from 1914 to 1917, he served in the military. From 1918 to 1921, he lecturedt at the State Free Art Workshops, which were later transformed into the Higher Art and Technical Studios of the USSR, and then into the Higher Art and Technical Institute of the USSR in Moscow, where he was a professor from 1926 to 1929.

He became famous for his still lifes, often executed in a style close to analytical cubism and fauvism.

The postage stamp features an image of P. Konchalovsky's painting “Still Life. Red Tray and Rowan” (1947, Peter Konchalovsky Foundation), with a portrait of the artist in his studio on the margins of the block.

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as an illustrated cover with the souvenir sheet, a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for St. Petersburg inside.


Design Artist: M. Bodrova.
Face value: 250 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 118×79 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 39.5×39.5 mm.
Quantity: 16 thousand souvenir sheets.

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