Sergei Gerasimov Russian Still life with white peonies oil/canvas. Image only size 23 in by 16 in.

Sergey Vasilyevich Gerasimov was a Soviet Russian painter.Gerasimov was a student of artist Konstantin Korovin. His early watercolors are considered masterpieces and show a tendency toward modernism that is less pronounced in his later work. In the 1920s and 1930s, he taught at the state art school Vkhutemas, and designed posters and painted works sympathetic to the new Communist government in a style later known as Socialist realism.

During the Stalin era, Sergey Gerasimov was demoted from his position of director of the Russian Artists' Union and replaced by Aleksandr Gerasimov. With the death of Stalin and the rise of Nikita Khrushchev, Sergey Gerasmimov was re-instated as the head of the Russian Artists' Union, a position he held until his death in 1964.

Some of Gerasimov's most famous students that he came in contact with and taught at the Surikov Art Institute include; Fedor Zakharov, Vladimir Stozharov, Alexey and Sergey Tkachyov, Yury Kugach, Aleksei Gritsai and many other important Soviet artists.

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