Still Life. Kitchen Table

Henrykh Vasylovych Pavlovskyi was an artist and teacher and a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1937). Born on October 15 (28), 1907 in the village of Kamyanske, Ekaterinoslav province (now the city of Kamyanske, Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine), he graduated in 1929 from the Vitebsk Art College. In 1930, he entered the first year of the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts (starting in 1932, the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the All-Russian Academy of Arts), which he graduated in 1937 (he studied in the workshop of Professor O. Osmerkin). He took part in exhibitions starting in the early 1930s. Pavlovskyi painted genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. Starting in 1937, he was a teacher at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. From 1950 to 1973, he was a teacher at the V. Mukhina Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School. Among his works are "Fruit. Still Life" (1956), "Collective Farm Yard" (1957), "Zelenogorsk. Artist's House" (1960), "Tractor Driver" (1964), "Rural Still Life" (1972), "The Feat of Nadia Kurchenko" (1973), and others. He died on December 17, 1973 in Leningrad. His works are in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg and in museums and private collections in the post-Soviet space and abroad.