"ARKA" art-gallery
Saint-Petersburg

Mikhail Kaneyev (1923 - 1983)

  Mikhail Kaneyev was born on April 5, 1923 in the village of Kaneyevo, Chukhlomsky District, Kostroma Region. In 1951 he graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts named after I.E. Repin (Rudolf Frentz workshop). He was engaged in Mikhail Avilov, Ivan Stepashkin, Yuri Neprintsev. Participation in exhibitions since 1953. Member of the Leningrad Union of Artists  since 1953. He painted urban and landscape landscapes, genre paintings, etudes from nature. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982). Professor of Leningrad State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen (1980). Mikhail Kaneyev's works are in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, in numerous museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, Britain, France, the USA and other countries.

 
Mikhail Kaneyev. Kotelnichesky Bridge in Moscow. Oil on cardboard, 25х25. 1976
Mikhail Kaneyev. Ancient Novgorod. Oil on cardboard, 25,7х25,4. 1979
Mikhail Kaneyev. Ancient Pskov. Oil on cardboard, 25,5х25,5. 1979
Mikhail Kaneyev. Russian Antiquity. Oil on canvas, 41х41. 1974
Mikhail Kaneyev. Sadovaya Street in Leningrad. Oil on cardboard, 25,5х22. 1981
Mikhail Kaneyev. At the Threshing-floor. Oil on cardboard, 25,5х22. 1981
Mikhail Kaneyev. Summer Evening. Oil on cardboard,32,7х49,8. 1970