€1,500 - €3,000
Star Lot: A stunning original oil on canvas painting by the Russian artist, Victor Alexandrovich Otiev (1935-1999) titled The Swimming of the Horses and dating to 1972. It features young men riding a herd of horses into the water, their nude figures emphasizing a sense of primalism compounded by the strong contrast between light and dark. Created in a fantastic expressionist style composition rendered in thick broken brush strokes to create an intense sense of dynamism. Housed in a wooden frame. Mm: 72x62cm
Victor Alexandrovich Otiev was a Soviet, Russian painter, graphic artist, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. In 1955 he went to Leningrad and entered at the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, where he was a student of Boris Ugarov, Andrei Mylnikov, Nikita Medovikov and Vladislav Anisovich. In 1961 Otiev graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Victor Oreshnikov's workshop. His graduation work was genre painting named "A Herdsman". Since 1950, Otiev participated in art exhibitions. He painted landscapes, portraits, genre paintings, scenes with horses, sketches from the life. One of the leading themes of his art – an equestrian sport. His personal exhibition was in Leningrad in 1980. Otiev was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 – the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation) since 1967. His works of this size sell in thousands and has sold very well at Irish auction houses. There is a video of this lot on our tic tok, Facebook and instagram page under South Dublin Auction.
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