Almost a decade has passed since we introduced the most promising international artist of our time:
MIHAIL CHEMIAKIN. – We want to update you with the extraordinary progress Chemiakin has made during the years since we first made reference to his worldwide stature.
You will remember we offered the 5 – piece suite, CARNIVAL IN ST. PETERSBURG, reflecting carnival characters in costumes during the era of Peter The Great. This edition of 250 original, pencil signed and numbered, lithographs is practically sold out.
Looking back just over the past two years, Chemiakin was staging one of the major retrospective exhibitions of 1995 at the Hermitage and Manege Museums in St. Petersburg. This international retrospective brings Chemiakin full circle. – As a young man, he had worked as a laborer at the Hermitage Museum and spent many hours studying and copying the art works of the Western Masters. Even then, Chemiakin knew that a fresh synthesis of the old and the new in art was needed, and instinctively felt that he would someday play a leading role in creating that synthesis. Thirty–one years later, following his first exhibition in 1964, he triumphantly returns to the Hermitage as today’s most influential living Russian artist…his early intuition fully confirmed.
Late in 1994, Chemiakin was awarded the prestigious State Prize of Russia for Arts and Letters by special decree of President Yelsten. Mihail Chemiakin stated he would only accept it personnaly from Mr. Yeltsen and only in the United States. – Mr. Yeltsen agreed and traveled to the Russian Embassy in Washington, DE.C. for this event.
We are now pleased to be able to offer to you additional works by Chemiakin, having expanded our collection into a respectable selection of rare and exquisite art works. “The Fall of Icarus“ is simply breathtaking in terms of artistic excellence and color.
We invite you to visit our gallery and view the new Chemiakin arrivals. This art is available to us in a very limited supply, and we believe that now is the time to consider your purchase of Chemiakin’s art work while it remains available at modest prices for an artist of such importance, and who continues to exhibit rapid advances internationally.
