Yelena Zhukova | |
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Born | Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova 5 June 1906 |
Died | 31 October 1991 | (aged 85)
Education | Tavricheskaya Art School |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Realism |
Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova ( Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, [1] who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, [2] most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).