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oil on paper laid on board, 1994 67.5 x 62.5cm SOLD Abstract Composition
oil on board, 1993 63.5 x 85.5cm signed lower right SOLD Red and Blue
oil on board 107 x 87cm signed lower right SOLD Blue and Grey
oil on board, 1989 45 x 57cm SOLD Abstract Composition
oil on paper laid on board, 1993 58.5 x 67.5cm signed lower right available Blue and Yellow Wheels
oil on paper laid on board, 1994 69 x 60.5cm SOLD Blue and Yellow Stairs
oil on paper laid on board, 1993 61 x 70cm SOLD Red, Blue and Yellow
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oil on paper laid on board, 1993 64.5 x 40cm SOLD Abstract Composition
oil on board, 1994 68 x 60.5cm signed SOLD Still Life with Book and Jug
oil on board, 1979 62 x 60cm SOLD Still Life with Books
oil on board, 1980 33.7 x 48cm SOLD Still Life with Bottle and Fruit
oil on board, 1985 64 x 49cm available Way Out
oil and collage on board, 1984 50.5 x 60cm SOLD Northumberland Landscape with Red Car
oil on board 57 x 67cm signed, 1977-80 SOLD Russian Woodlands
ink on paper, 1970 40 x 28cm signed SOLD Ullapool
watercolour and gouache on paper 29.5 x 40cm SOLD Sea Cliffs, Ullapool
watercolour and gouache on paper 29.5 x 40cm SOLD Horses
acrylic on paper, 1989 40 x 64cm SOLD Shaded Doorway
acrylic on paper, 1989 40 x 64cm available Shepherd with Goats
mixed media on paper laid on board, 1998 61 x 74cm available View of the Town
acrylic on paper, 1989 40 x 64cm SOLD Cactus
acrylic on paper 40 x 64cm available Tree Figure
mixed media on paper laid on board, 1998 52 x 67cm available Figure Walking
acrylic on paper, 1989 40 x 64cm SOLD Church
acrylic on paper, 1989 40 x 64cm SOLD George Street, Edinburgh
silkscreen on paper 27.5 x 31cm mounted and framed available Leith, Edinburgh
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silkscreen on paper mounted and framed 36 x 48cm SOLD Highland Scene
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silkscreen on paper mounted and framed 28 x 36cm SOLD Cretan House
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mixed media on paper 10 x 15cm SOLD Rome
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Kirill Sokolov (Кирилл Соколов) (1930 - 2004) was a celebrated Russian painter and one of the former Soviet Bloc's greatest modern artists.
Throughout his career, Kirill Sokolov's work and art enjoyed a wide range of media and art forms, from books illustrations and silk-screen printing to oil painting, silkscreen, collage and sculpture. Between 1950 and 1957 Sokolov studied at the prestigious Surikov Institute in Moscow. Amongst his classmates was the conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. In 1960 Sokolov met his future wife, Avril Pyman, a British research student and biographer of Alexander Blok. The couple married in Moscow in 1963, one of the first foreign marriages allowed in post-Stalinist Russia and which had to be personally approved by Krushchev. For the next ten years Sokolov gained distinction as a highly original engraver and illustrator of some fifty books, including the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and Yuri Trifonov. In 1974 Sokolov emigrated to the United Kingdom with his family, from where he went on to establish an international reputation. Eventually settling in Durham, Sokolov served as co-editor of the international art journal Leonardo as well as becoming a member of the Society of Fine Art Graphic Artists. During his career, Sokolov developed his own method of printmaking which he called 'silkscreen collage', the results of which include a tribute to George Orwell, London 1984, and have been exhibited widely. Sokolov's work has been exhibited widely, including a major retrospective at the University of Durham in 2006. To view more work by Sokolov held in the National Collection on the BBC's Your Paintings, click here. Biography
1930 - Born in Moscow 1951 - 1957 - Attended the Surikov Institute, Moscow 1957 - Laureate of International Exhibition, Moscow 1957 - 1974 - Illustrated some 50 books. Worked at easel-painting. Graphic Works regularly exhibited in the USSR 1964 - Linocuts to Hamlet exhibited in Literary Museum, Moscow and Shakespearean Memorial Centre, Stratford-on-Avon 1974 - Emigrated to England 1975 - Exhibited pastel illustrations to Blok's Puppet Booth at Durham University and Sunderland Art Centre 1976 - Became co-editor of the international art journal Leonardo 1976 - Retrospective exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1977 - Exhibitions of paintings at Collingwood College, of illustrated books at Durham University Library and of paintings and graphics at the Art Centre, Jersey 1979 - Exhibition of paintings and screenprints, Senate House, University of London 1980 - Exhibition of paintings at Hillman Gallery, near Hamburg 1981 - Exhibition of portraits at Dunelm House, Durham 1981 - Home in Berwick-upon-Tweed burnt and many works lost. Moved to Durham and began work with Charlotte Press 1985 - Exhibition of prints "London-1984" at Bishopsgate Foundation, London 1986 - Exhibition of graphic cycle "Greece" at Grey Gallery, Gosforth 1987 - Exhibition of graphic cycle "Greece and Athos" at Bishopsgate Foundation, London 1988 - Graphic cycle "Faust" at Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London 1989 - "Faust" at Steinhaus Knittlingen, Germany 1990 - Selected graphics at Academy of Art, Riga, Latvia 1992 - Graphic retrospective "Ten years' work" at the Central House of the Artist, Krymskaia Naberezhnala, Moscow, and State Art Gallery, Perm. Exhibition of selected oil paintings and graphic works at Vicarage Gallery, North Shields 1994 - "Pictures for an exhibition", Clayton Gallery at the Playhouse, Newcastle 1995 - A retrospective: Paintings and Sculpture, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 1996 - A retrospective: Paintings and Sculpture, Krymskaia Nabereshnaia, Moscow 1998 - A retrospective, State Art Gallery, Perm 1999 - Exhibition of "Faust" prints and sculpture, Manchester Cathedral 2002 - Exhibition of new works at Nashe Nasledie, Moscow 2004 - Exhibition "In memory of Alexsandr Blok" at the Blok Museum, St. Petersburg. Exhibition of "Faust" prints at Perm Art Museum 2004 - Died at Wansbeck Hospital, Ashington 2006 - Posthumous exhibition of paintings, sculpture and graphics at Grey College, Durham University 2007 - Exhibition "A lifetime as book illustrator" at the Andrey Bely Museum, Moscow. Reprise of 2006 Durham exhibition at Gallery 47, London 2008 - Exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Galleri International, Laesoe, Denmark 2009 - Exhibition at the Scotland-Russia Forum, Edinburgh 2012 - Exhibition at The Sutton Gallery 2013 - Exhibition at Gallery Seventeen, Edinburgh |