Background
Valeria Borisovna Larina was born April 10, 1926, in the Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Valeria Borisovna Larina was born April 10, 1926, in the Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
There she studied under Piotr Belousov, Ivan Stepashkin, Alexander Zaytsev.
In 1946, Valeria Larina entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. In 1953, Valeria Larina graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of painting in Boris Ioganson workshop, together with Mark Klionsky, Leonid Kabachek, Izzat Klychev, Konstantin Molteninov, Vladimir Seleznev, Nikolai Galakhov, and other young artists. Her graduated work was genre painting named "Young Shipbuilders".
Since 1953, Valeria Larina has participated in Art Exhibitions.
She painted portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and sketches from the life. lieutenant became the leading genre portrait of a contemporary.
In 1950s she was most famous for her series of expressive portraits of steel-makers and workers from Kirov plant in Leningrad. Later she painted mainly portraits of females and etudes done from nature.
The beauty of tonal relations and soft drawing gives to her portraits the poetic sounds, raising everyday scene up to the complete and profound image.
Development of a picturesque manners went in the typical for 1960 direction of strengthening decorative qualities of painting. Valeria Borisovna Larina died in Saint St. Petersburg in 2008. Her paintings reside in museums and private collections in Russia, England, Germane, France, Italy, the United States., and others
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She was a member of the Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting. Since 1954, Valeria Larina was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists (since 1992, named as Saint St. Petersburg Union of Artists).