Evgenija Petrovna Antipova Sold at Auction Prices

Painter, b. 1917 - d. 2009

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova (Russian: October 19, 1917 in Toropets, Tver Governorate, Russia – January 27, 2009, in Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a Russian Soviet painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, and Art teacher, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation),[1] lived and worked in Leningrad – Saint Petersburg and regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was born on October 19, 1917 in Toropets town, Tver Governorate. Her father was a railway office worker. Since 1928 she lived with her parents in Samara on the Volga River. There she began to get busy in an artistic studio under the direction of Pavel Krasnov. From 1935, Antipova lived in Leningrad. In 1936–1939 she studied in the Leningrad Secondary Art School at the All-Russian Academy of Arts. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaytsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb.

In 1939 Antipova entered the painting department of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (since 1944 named after Ilia Repin), where she studied with Semion Abugov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Osmerkin, Gleb Savinov, and Vladimir Malagis.[3] In 1939 Antipova at first participated in the All-Union Youth Artistic Exhibition in Moscow, presenting the sketch of work «Valery Chkalov among young people». It was printed in an art magazine «Young Artist» for 1939.

The start of Operation Barbarossa found Antipova on summer practice in the West Ukraine. With the last echelons she reached Leningrad. On July 28, 1941 Antipova made a match for Jacov Lukash, a fourth-year student of the department of monumental painting. Called up to serve in the Red Army, he perished at the front in May 1942. Up to the beginning of 1942, Antipova remained in blockaded Leningrad. In February 1942, she was evacuated to Novosibirsk, where she lived and worked up to the end of the war.[4]

In 1945 Antipova returned to Leningrad and in 1950 graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Boris Ioganson's personal art studio (the former studio of Alexander Osmerkin). Her graduate work was a painting named «Andrey Zhdanov visits the Palace of Young Pioneers in Leningrad»