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Alexander Volkov
Russian FederationArt Brokerage: Alexander Volkov Russian Artist: b. 1960. Alexander Volkov is a Russian-American oil painter who was born in St. Petersburg in 1960 and has lived and worked in Hunterdon County for 25 years. He started painting with oil as a high school student. From the age of 7 to 17 he attended a special English school and in 1986 graduated from the Department of Physics at Leningrad State University. Following graduation, Alexander worked as an animator at Leningrad Studio of Science Films and later as a stage artist in a small Leningrad theatre. In 1981 he began to exhibit his paintings with a group of 200 Leningrad artists known as the "Brotherhood of Experimental Arts", a conglomeration of "underground" art groups active in Leningrad at the time. Later, he joined a splinter group called "Ostrov" or "Island" which united 30 artists who felt that, ideologically, their work was neither socialist realism nor extreme avant garde. Reluctantly, he calls himself a "self-taught" artist. "We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. you will learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. perhaps, during my forming years, I have made a lot of unnecessary mistakes, but at the same time I have had the enormous advantage of picking my own teachers." And so they were: William Turner, Vermeer, Franz Hals, Rembrandt and many others from the previous centuries as well as Edward Hopper, Maxfield Parrish and Andrew Wyeth of the 20th century. They also were Beethoven and Satie, Nabokov and Steinbeck, Einstein and Tarkovsky. They were school and university friends, physics professors and struggling artists. "They have all taught me something - how to see, how to hear, how to understand things and, most importantly, how to understand myself. I cannot separate any one of their voices from the voice which I hear inside of me and which has become my own voice." Combining a lifelong fascination with architecture, landscape and still-life subjects, Alexander brings drama and poetic expression into his work. With his unique vision, he merges mood and atmosphere, evoking powerful emotions that create harmony. "There is no greater mystery to me than the conflict of light and dark. In the way they clash and penetrate each other, there is the source of everything. Whether I paint a landscape, a still-life or a portrait, within it there is always a story of light traveling through darkness." Alexander paints landscapes, portraits and genre paintings. Original paintings wanted
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Alexander Volkov
Rainy Day 2010
Limited Edition Print: Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 195
Size: 34x24 in | 86x61 cm
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Alexander Volkov
Daybreak AP 2008 - Huge
Limited Edition Print: Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the AP Edition of 20
Size: 24x36 in | 61x91 cm
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Night Pond 2002
Limited Edition Print: Lithograph on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 195
Size: 28x42 in | 71x107 cm
🔥Framed Limited Edition Lithograph on Canvas - A Steal $1,900
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Abandoned Post - Huge
Limited Edition Print: Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the Edition of 195
Size: 25x43 in | 64x109 cm
🔥Huge Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas - Inquire $2,500
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Old Divide 2002
Limited Edition Print: Giclee, Hand Signed, From the edition of 195
Size: 27x45 in | 69x114 cm
🔥Large Framed Limited Edition Giclee $1,400
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Thanksgiving 2003 40x50 Huge
Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed
Size: 30x40 in | 76x102 cm
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Anticipation of Spring AP 2000 Embellished
Limited Edition Print: Hand Embellished Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, Artist Proof
Size: 33x44 in | 84x112 cm
🔥Limited Edition Embellished Artist Proof on Canvas - 6 Watchers $3,200
Alexander Volkov
In the Moonlight AP 2002
Limited Edition Print: Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the AP edition of 25
Size: 27x40 in | 69x102 cm
🔥Limited Edition Artist Proof $2,000
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Quiet Snowfall AP 2003 Embellished - Huge
Limited Edition Print: Embellished Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the AP Edition of 25
Size: 31x48 in | 79x122 cm
🔥Huge Limited Edition Artist Proof Embellished Giclee on Canvas $2,000
Alexander Volkov
Last Days of Fall 1997 38x48 Huge
Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed
Size: 28x38 in | 71x97 cm
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Night Divides the Day 2007 37x57 Huge
Original Painting: Oil on Canvas, Hand Signed
Size: 27x48 in | 69x122 cm
🔥Framed Oil on Canvas - Inquire - 11 Watchers $10,900
Alexander Volkov
Abandoned Post 2003
Limited Edition Print: Giclee on Canvas, Hand Signed, From the edition of 195
Size: 25x43 in | 64x109 cm
Framed Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas $2,000
Alexander Volkov
Memories of St Petersburg 1998 - Russia
Limited Edition Print: Lithograph on Canvas, Hand Signed, 22/195
Size: 20x26 in | 51x66 cm
🔥Framed Limited Edition Lithograph on Canvas - a Steal $2,700
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