Portrait of Rahmanzade
Nikolai Alexandrovich Sheberstov (1917 - not earlier than 1978)
Paper, watercolor
Size: 55 x 73 cm
Time of creation: 1966
Soviet graphic artist, illustrator. Member of the USSR Collective Farm. He illustrated the novel by A.N. Tolstoy "Bread", children's books "House in Tsibiknur" (1949),
"Urtu, son of Barga" (1962), "Petka at the dacha" (1972), "Nikita and Mikitka" (1979). In the 1950s he made ink drawings
for the novel by E. Zola "The Belly of Paris". Author of campaign posters on social and agricultural topics: "Everyone to the polls!" (1947),
"It is pleasant and joyful to know that the blood spilled by our people was not in vain, that it gave its results" (1947),
"We won in battle - we will win in labor! For the Motherland, for Stalin!" (1948), "Gardeners, breed Michurinsky varieties of apples!" (1950).
He made advertising posters for the USSR State Ministry of Finance: "We call everyone to subscribe for a loan" (1947).
N.A. Sheberstov's circulation posters are kept in the collections of the National Library of Belarus, private Russian collections.
The portrait shows the first professional Azerbaijani artist Maral Rahmanzade
"An artist who created her own canon of female beauty ... People's Artist of Azerbaijan, laureate of the State Prize,
holder of the Order of Shohrat Maral Rahmanzade is one of the brightest figures in the national fine arts of Azerbaijan.
Maral Rahmanzade, who was born and raised in a Muslim family and wore a veil until the age of fourteen,
was able to get a professional art education in Moscow.
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