Pavel BENKOV  1879 — 1949

Павло БЕНКОВ • Павел Петрович БЕНКОВ

Pavel Petrovich Benkov was born in Kazan in 1879. Leading Central Asian realist. Studied at Kazan Art School in 1895-1901; at Imperial Academy of Arts in 1901-1909; in Paris. Active in Kazan until 1929; Samarkand, Uzbekistan from 1929. Began exhibiting in 1903. Member of AKhRR from 1922. Exhibited with Itinerants in 1916, 1922. Died in Samarkand in 1949.

Works

Girls playing by the artist`s house, Samarkand