Prorokov Boris Ivanovich (1911-1972). The Bronze Horseman. Gouache on paper.

38.5х26.3. PROROKOV Boris Ivanovich (1911-72) , Russian graphic painter, People"s Artist of the Soviet Union (1971), Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1954). In 1930s contributed to the Komsomol"skaya Pravda newspaper, the Smena and the Krokodil magazines, during the Great Patriotic War worked on front-line editions. Series of pungent publicistic expressive drawings ("For Peace!" 1950; "It must not happen again!" 1958-1959). The Lenin Prize (1961), the USSR State Prize (1950, 1952).