Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky

Russian artist

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Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky (born Feb. 9 [Feb. 21, New Style], 1876, Slov’yansk, Ukraine, Russian Empire [now Slov’yansk, Ukr.]—died Feb. 2, 1956, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian painter and graphic artist who was representative of the Moscow School. Although he was much influenced by the work of Paul Cézanne in the early 20th century, he turned away from this style in the 1930s and embraced Socialist Realism, becoming a classic exemplar of Soviet painting and...