Background
SOKOLOV-SKALYA, Pavel was born in 1899.
SOKOLOV-SKALYA, Pavel was born in 1899.
1914-1918 studied at I. I. Mashkov’s private art studio, Moscow. 1922 graduated Higher Art and Technology Studios.
Since 1922 illustrator and cartoonist for newspaper “Batrak” and other publications. 1922-1925 member, “Bytie” Association. Since 1926 member, Association, of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.
Late 1920's and 1930's painted Revolution and Civil War canvases: “The Taman Campaign” (1928). “Brothers” (1932); “Workers’ Detachment, 1919” (1937). Diorama “The First Cavalry Army in Wrangel’s Rear” (1937).
Triptych “Shchors” (1938). “The Road from Gorki” (1929). “The Defense of Tsaritsyn”, for Soviet Pavilion at New York World Fair (1939).
“The Storming of the Winter Palace”, for AllUnion Agriculture Exhibition (1940). “The Last Day of the Paris Commune” and “Paris before the Storm” (1928). During World War П did many political posters including “USSR Telegraph Agency Windows” (1942).
Also historical pictures: “Ivan IV in Livonia” (1942), etc. Main postwar works: “Liberation of Kaluga” (1947). "Men of the Red Don” (1948).
Directed restoration of F. A. Rubo’s panorama “The Defense of Sevastopol” (1954). Works as theater artist. 1957 Director, Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts, Moscow.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.
Member, Communist Party, since 1952.