Oil on canvas, framed. featuring standing nude, signed and attr. Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrigin (Russian, 1897-1922). 38.6 x 31.1 in. (98 x 79 cm), Chekrygin solo exhibitions were held in 1923 in the State Tretyakov Gallery, 1957 - Museum of VV Mayakovsky (one-day exhibition), 1969 and 2006 - in the Pushkin Museum of. Pushkin in Moscow. His work has also been exhibited in numerous exhibitions of Russian art in Russia and abroad, including the first Russian art exhibition in the Van Diemen Gallery in Berlin (1922), shows "Makovtsa" (1924-1925), Venice Biennale (1924), " Artists of the RSFSR during 15 years "at the Museum of Fine Arts (1933)," Moscow - Paris "at the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Pushkin Museum im. Alexander Pushkin (1981), "Moscow - Berlin" in the Martin-Gropius Bau in Berlin and GMII im. Alexander Pushkin (1996) and many others.

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