"At the Bazaar", 1932, Oil on Board, 21x16 cm, signed verso by
Kotov Nikolay Georgievich (1889–1968)
A talented painter and researcher artist who made a number of important discoveries in panoramic painting.
Nikolay Kotov studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture under the tutelage of Abram Arkhipov and Konstantin Korovin (1912–1917). One of the founders and leaders of a famous art group – the Association of Artists of the Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR) in 1922.
He participated in recreating the panoramas by Frantz Roubaud: “Borodino Battle” in Moscow and “Sevastopol Battle” in Sevastopol, Ukraine. His one-man exhibition was held in Moscow in 1933.
Nikolay Kotov's works are exhibited in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, the Moscow Central Museum of the Revolution, and the Central Museum of the Soviet Army.
