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Viktor Leonidovich Templin
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
- Viktor Leonidovich Templin
- Autumnal Forest
- signed in Cyrillic l.l.; further signed, titled and dated 1967 on the reverse
- oil on card
- 77 by 97cm, 30 1/4 by 38 1/4 in.
Catalogue Note
Having trained as an artist in his youth, Templin was arrested in 1937 when he was just 17 years old. He was sentenced to five years in a labour camp in Kolyma on suspicion of engagement in a counter-revolutionary plot. In 1945 he was exiled to Magadan, Siberia. Working for the Magadan State Theatre as a theatre designer, he met his future wife, a fellow artist, Nina Lugovskaya. By the 1960s Templin joined the Vladimir School of Artists and dedicated himself to painting landscapes which celebrate the variety and vastness of rural Russia.