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Vasili Kuzmich Komolov was born on April 7, 1918, in the village of Tavolzhanka in the Lipetsk Region.
After finishing secondary school, he entered the Tambov Art College from which he graduated in 1937. Trained as a painter and decorator, he was sent to the Voronezh Theater to work as a scene painter.
In 1938 he became a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia.
From 1939, Komolov served in the army. He fought against the Germans in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). He was wounded and received a medal for his bravery.
After the war he participated in many art exhibitions.
He was married to artist Paulina Komolova until his death in 1985.
His paintings are devoted to working people in the genres of portraits and landscapes.
His works have been published in various books and journals, including:
- “A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Izomar Limited, London, 1998.
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- A Collective Farm Workday (sold)
- A Girl in the Field
- A Girl with Braids
- A Herd
- A Mill in Winter
- A Pigmaid
- After the Rain
- After the Rain (sold)
- Aspens
- Asphalting a Road
- At the Mooring (sold)
- Autumn
- Autumn Fields
- Autumn in Voronezh
- Boguchar. Fishermen (sold)
- Bringing Down
- Building Site (sold)
- Butcher’s Shop Hill
- Butchers’ Bazaar (sold)
- By the River Don
- By the Shelter (sold)
- By the Ski-jump (sold)
- Collective Farm Worker
- Evening in the Camp
- Evening in the Country
- Farmland
- Fisherman (sold)
- Girl in Red
- Goryachy Kluch
- Holiday in the Forest
- Idle Day
- In Brigade (sold)
- In the Garden (sold)
- In the Hayloft
- Klava
- Landscape
- Landscape with Arch
- Late Autumn. Academic Dacha (sold)
- Lenin with Children (sold)
- Lunch in the Field
- Marks of Autumn
- Midday by the Don
- Milkmaid
- New Frame (sold)
- Nikolai
- Old Country Academic Dacha
- On a Current
- On MTC
- On the Bridge
- On the Don
- Pomyalovsky Slope (sold)
- Portrait of a Girl
- Self-portrait
- Sketch for a Portrait of the Candidate of Science A. A. Shapovalova
- Skier
- Smoke
- Smoke
- Spring (sold)
- Still Life with Vegetables
- Study for a Painting (sold)
- Study. Field Camp
- Summer Beach (sold)
- Summer Day (sold)
- Thaw (sold)
- The Harvest Season
- The Village Outskirts
- Threshing on the Steppes
- Town Landscape (sold)
- Veta
- Village Girls
- Wheat is Ripening (sold)
- Winter
- Winter
- Winter in the Forest
- Winter. Sketch with Hay (sold)
- Woman with a Red Scarf (sold)
- Writing Exams