Igor Popov

Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Alexander Popov in Kharkiv (1927). Studied under Pavel Koshevoi, Sergei Mikhailov, Vitaly Pochitalov and Akindin Shorchev at the Moscow Secondary School of Art in Moscow and the village of Voskresenskoe in Bashkiria (1939–45) and under Vitaly Pochitalov, Sergei Gerasimov and Vladimir Favorsky at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts/Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1945–51). Member of the Union of Artists (1954), chairman of the Moscow branch (from 1974). Travelled with Gennady Darin, Fyodor Novotelnov, Vladimir Stozharov and Yury Semenyuk to Kostroma and Yaroslavl Regions (1961) and with Yefrem Zverkov and Vladimir Stozharov to Arkhangelsk Region (1963) and the Komi Republic (1964). Painted portraits of fishermen in Galich (1965). Lived and worked in Moscow (from late 1960s). Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1970), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1980). Painted murals for the House of Receptions in Moscow (1985). Died in Moscow and buried at the Vagankovo Cemetery (1999). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1953), including Exhibition of Painting by Moscow Artists at Sokolniki Park in Moscow (1953), All-Union Art Exhibition Coinciding with the XXII Communist Party Congress in Moscow (1961) and one-man shows in Moscow (1973, 1989) and Tver (2011).