Oil on panel
Peter Kurbatov (1907-1985) is a Russian painter who studied at the Academy of Arts in Leningrad. Arrested at the end of the 30s and sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp, he escaped and went to Sweden. He became known for his landscape paintings, spent a summer in Paris and then emigrated to the United States in the mid-1940s and resided in Florida. In 1954 a large exhibition of his portraits was organized in Washington.
It is difficult to say where this painting is situated because its date: 1947 is at the junction of his European life and his installation in the United States. Far from the abstract expressionism well established in the United States at the time he arrived in his new adopted country, he continued according to the artistic precepts with which he had evolved in Europe.
