Sergei Grigoriev was born in Lugansk, Ukraine in 1910. He studied at the Zaporozhe Arts and Crafts School from 1923-26, then at Moscow VKHUTEMAS 1926-27: Kiev Art Institute 1928-32. He was active in Kharkov, Ukraine, 1932-34 before moving on to Kiev, Ukraine, thereafter. Began exhibiting 1932? Important shows include Twenty Years of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, Moscow, 1938; Industry of Socialsm, Moscow, 1939; All Union Art Exhibition, Moscow, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1955.
He was known as a leading painter of everyday-life genre subjects late 1940s-early 1950s. Well known works include Admission into the Komsomol (1949; Kiev Museum of Ukrainian Art); The Goalkeeper (1949; Tretyakov Gallery); Discussion of the Low Mark (1950; Tretyakov Gallery); Hes come back (1954; Tretyakov Gallery). He taught at the Kharkov Art Institute 1933-34; at the Kiev Art Institute from 1934; head of creative studios of USSR Academy of Arts, Kiev, from 1962. Became a Soviet academician 1953/54? Awarded Stalin Prizes 1950, 1951; awarded the title Peoples Artist of the USSR 1974. Also a graphic artist. Died 1980s.
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