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Anatoli Pavlovich Levitin was born in Moscow on July 16, 1921. He received a traditional Russian art training beginning with his childhood studies at the Central House of Artistic Education of Children in Moscow, followed by study at the Secondary Art School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He graduated in 1941.
Levitin served at the front in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) from 1942 to 1945 and returned to St. Petersburg where he began studies at the Repin Institute. He studied under professors A.D. Zaitsev, Fogel, Ovsyannikov and Ostova. He was in the studio of Professor and Acadmician B.V. Ioganson. He was influenced by the Russian Realist painters Ilya Repin, Valentin Serov, Issac Levitan, and Mikhail Vrubel, as well as French painters, Van Gogh, Manet, Sisley, and Italian painters.
He became a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia in 1951. He has been a participant in more than 200 all-Russian, republican and international art exhibitions, including such countries as Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, France, the UK, Japan, China, and the United States.
He became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts in 1975. He is now a full member of the Academy, which gives him the prestigious title of “Academician”. He also holds the title “People’s Artist of Russia”. He has been awarded with many governmental decorations.
He is primarily well known for his wonderful portraits, which capture the nature of the people as well as the atmosphere where they lived, worked, and studied. As a result, we know something of the personality from looking at the portrait.
His paintings can be found in private collections in Russia, France, Japan, and the United States, as well as in major museums:
- The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- The Museum of Krasnoyarsk
- The Museum of Perm
- The Museum of Taganrog
- The Museum of Tiski
- The Museum of Petro-Savodsk
- The Museum of Novosibirsk
His works have been published in numerous art books and journals, including:
- “Artists of the Russian World.” St. Petersburg, 2005.
- “Art Under Stalin.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Holmes & Meier Publishers, New York. 1991.
- “A Dictionary of Twentieth Century Russian And Soviet Painters.” Matthew Cullerne Bown. Izomar Limited, London, 1998.
- “Hidden Treasures: Russian and Soviet Impressionism.” Fleischer Museum, Scottsdale, AZ, 1994.
- “Paintings from the Russian Museum Collection.” Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1975.
- “The Russian Museum, Leningrad. Paining.” Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1979.
- “The Soviet Character.” Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1986.
- “St. Petersburg Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.” ArtChronicle, St. Petersburg, 2003.
- “The USSR Academy of Arts.” Aurora Art Publishers, Leningrad, 1982.
- “The Visual Arts of Leningrad.” Artist RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic), Leningrad, 1981.
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- Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky (sold)
- Milkmaid (sold)
- Portrait of a Welder (sold)