"Blue Landscape with Town" by Boris Chetkov

Oil on canvas, signed lower right and inscribed on reverse. Very similar to the work "Blue Haze" that sold at Christies London in 2013. Approximate framed dimensions 37.5" x 44" Born October 27, 1926, to a family of successful peasant farmers in the small town of Novaya Lyalya in the Northern Urals, Boris Chetkov enjoyed a sunny early childhood. The ensuing years however were very turbulent, reflecting the dramatic changes brought on by Josef Stalin. Unjustly arrested as a young teen, Boris served a sentence at the infamous Gulag Nizhny Tagil before being assigned to the front lines of WWII as part of a ‘penal’ battalion – from which few survived.