In the history of art, Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin as Russian artist (1821-1892).
Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin was born at Nekrasovskoye in 1821. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Imperial Academy of Arts.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and iconographer.
Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
Recognition followed: Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1849).
That the work was made in Russia shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin died in 1892, aged 71. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts — 1849
