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WATERCOLOR ON PAPER PAINTING BY VICTOR POPKOV - An abstract Russian Soviet watercolor on paper landscape painting. Signed in the Cyrillic and dated lower right: V. Popkov 72. Also signed, titled in Russian Moscow and dated 1972 on the reverse. An attached paper with the stamp of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR - Permitted for export is on the back. Viktor Efimovich Popkov, 1932 - 1974, was a Soviet painter, graphic artist. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, 1975 - posthumously. Studied at the Art and Graphic Pedagogical School, 1948-1952 and Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov, 1952-1958 under E. A. Kibrik. Dimensions: Frame Size: 21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.) Image Size: 17 1/4 x 13 in. (43.8 x 33 cm.)