ARTIST – Tamara Dmitrievna Gladkaya
TITLE – ‘Artist Sketching’
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN – Russia
DATED – 20th Century
MEDIUM – Oil on board
SIGNED/DATED – Signed lower right: ‘T. Gladkaya’ (in Cyrillic). Artist’s name, with title and size, inscribed on reverse.
SIZE – 18 inch/ 46 cm wide; 13 inch/ 34 cm high
FRAMED SIZE – 23.5 inch/ 59.5 cm wide; 19.5 inch/ 49 cm high
PRICE (GBP) – 1000
CONDITION – Very good
TAMARA DMITRIEVNA GLADKAYA (1917 – 1999)
A graduate from the Moscow Art Institute, Gladkaya studied under Aleksandr Deyneka and is strongly linked to the Suikov Institute. Her career was secured by her marriage to the Moscow-based artist Anatolii Gorpenko, whose battle-paintings were well-regarded by the then regime (‘Glory to Stalin’s Guards!’, now at the Tate Gallery, is representative of his work). Gladkaya herself retained a rather gentler and more cerebral impressionist style. The change in artistic tastes post-Stalin benefited Gladkaya, and from 1953 she became a permanent participant in the All-Union art exhibitions.
