ART OF ANDREY SOKOLOV: COLLECTION OF 3 FLOWN SPACE VIEWS SKETCHES

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ART OF ANDREY SOKOLOV: COLLECTION OF 3 FLOWN SPACE VIEWS SKETCHES
It's offered to your attention the unique
3 "space views" sketches by Andrey Sokolov
- the premier Russian artist documenting space flight history and depicting space fiction for over 40 years. Sokolov is the world's first artist who began drawing open space without leaving the studio.
Sokolov worked in active cooperation with cosmonauts in the creation of his sketches of "space views", anticipating the Google Earth. Sokolov prepared a sketch of some region on Earth that he knew a cosmonaut crew would be passing over while in orbit. Using his vast and expert knowledge of light, color, perspective, and geography, he tried to depict what the cosmonauts would see as accurately as he could. Those sketches were done on a light, flexible canvas that can be rolled or folded. Sokolov gave these sketches to the cosmonauts, and they brought them onto the orbit! Cosmonauts signed and stamped the sketches onboard and return them to the Earth. On the space below left for the purpose, the cosmonauts were able to make notes, comparing Sokolov's view with reality. Using these critiques, Sokolov was able to render his final painting with great accuracy.
Enjoy the collection!
Black Sea. Summer. Morning
Created in 1987-1988.
Canvas size (height x width) - 16.1x11.8" (41x30 cm).
Flown in space onboard Soyuz TM-6 to the space station MIR with the crews of Vladimir Lyahov, Valery Polyakov and Abdul Ahad Momand.
Stamped onboard space station MIR on the day of docking.
The onboard
stamp
of the space station MIR says: "Joint Soviet-Afghan space flight. Orbital complex MIR. Space mail". It's dated as of August 31, 1988.
The Russian letter "B" and the arrow show the direction to the East ("vostok" in Russian).
See the sketch supersized from its
front
and
back
.
ID #008512
Atlantic coast of the USA. Washington area. Noon
Created in 1991-1992.
Canvas size (height x width) - 15.7x10.6" (40x27 cm).
Launched in space onboard Soyuz TM-15 to the space station MIR with the crews of Anatoly Solovjev, Sergey Avdeev and Michel Tognini.
Delivered from space onboard Soyuz TM-14 by Alexander Kaleri and Michel Tognini.
Signed in space by the cosmonauts Solovjev, Avdeev, Tognini, Kaleri.
Please watch the
signatures
of the cosmonauts.
The Russian letter "B" and the arrow show the direction to the East ("vostok" in Russian).
See the sketch supersized from its
front
and
back
.
ID #008513
India. Himalayas. Early morning
Created in 1982-1983.
Canvas size (height x width) - 18.1x12.2" (46x31 cm).
Flown in space onboard Soyuz T-9 to the space station Salyut-7 with the crews of Vladimir Lyahov and Alexander Alexandrov.
Stamped onboard space station Salyut-7.
Signed by the author at the top of the empty space, and then inscribed and signed in space by the cosmonauts Lyahov and Alexandrov.
Please
supersize
the inscription and the signatures of the cosmonauts and the author, as well as the onboard stamp.
The signed inscription by the cosmonauts says:
"This sketch is the most successful and does not require a comment. Maybe just mountains are more clearly exposed, decays and valleys are visible. This is a very good sketch."
The Russian letter "C" and the arrow show the direction to the North ("sever" in Russian).
See the sketch supersized from its
front
and
back
.
ID #008514
The author
Andrey Sokolov was born in 1931 in Leningrad in the former USSR. His father was one of the leading developers of the Soviet launch facility Baikonur. Educated as architect and studied art in Moscow Architectural Institute, Sokolov participated in art exhibitions since 1955 as science fiction artist. Since childhood the artist liked fiction of Jules Verne, Belyaeva, Tsiolkovsky, Bradbury. Sokolov devoted his first sci-fi paintings to Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451". After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 all his creativity was directed to the theme of space exploration.
He worked closely with the cosmonauts, particularly with his friend cosmonaut Alexey Leonov who has collaborated with Sokolov on a number of projects, assisting with the realistic depiction of views from orbit as the one who has seen them. Sokolov was a member of the Russian Union of Artists where he became The Chairman of the Cosmic Group. He had numerous exhibitions in the Soviet Union and abroad, including the U.S., West Germany, Holland and Japan. His art works have been published in many books and magazines, including Air and Space, and in seven books of his own (some done in collaboration with Alexey Leonov). Many Sokolov's paintings were used for the Soviet posters, postcards and postal stamps. As enormously prolific artist, Andrey Sokolov often made several versions or "concepts" of his paintings. This well-known fact is proved by numerous different versions of paintings made by Sokolov for stamps. See samples
here
.
Andrey Sokolov died in March 2007. His works are presented in many museums and private collections. For example, The National Air and Space Museum, a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has the collection of works by Sokolov and Leonov.
Provenance.
The collection has been kept by relatives of Andrey Sokolov in Belarus, where he had a summer house. After the death of the artist, the house, along with a collection of paintings, went to these relatives. They held this Sokolov's great heritage for many years and only now decided to sell it.
Condition.
The sketches are in good condition. Some stamps and cosmonauts signatures are a bit faded, but anyway they could be easely recognized.
Complete set.
The collection includes all the 3 sketches shown and described above:
Black Sea. Summer. Morning
Atlantic coast of the USA. Washington area. Noon
India. Himalayas. Early morning
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