Reapers [Venetsianov] Russian Masterpiece Painting

Product Description

Prominent Russian artist, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, painted peasant life and ordinary people in the early 19th century. Reapers [1830]. This magnificent replica was skillfully hand painted in Russia by Igor V. Shepel. Mounted within a simple wooden frame. About 5¾" x 7½". 

About the replica artist: Igor Viktorovich Shepel was born in 1961 in the city of Rostov-on-the-Don. From 1978-1984 he studied at the Rostov College of Arts (named after Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov 1882-1934, founding father of Soviet military theme and panoramic painting). Shepel is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and participates in many regional and personal exhibitions. He works and teaches at the Grekov Art School. He specializes in museum quality art done in oil, Russian masterpiece replicas as well as replicas of Western masters, both complex and simple. He is especially fond of painting landscapes as well as renditions of famous Russian icons. Many of his works are in museums, galleries and private collections in Russia, Germany, Brazil, and Canada.