Daily LIFT #2115

Lenin – Leader of October, fragment, 1969, Soviet artist V. P. Yefanov (November 23, 1900 – March 3, 1978) -- Daily LIFT #2115

Vasily Prokofievich Yefanov was a prominent Soviet painter and teacher best known for his ceremonial portraits and major socialist realist canvases that earned him multiple Stalin Prizes.

Yefanov received five Stalin Prizes in 1941, 1946, 1948, 1950 and 1952. He was named People’s Painter of the USSR in 1965 and became a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts in 1947. He also received the Order of Lenin and a silver medal from the Ministry of Culture in 1958.

Yefanov taught at the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, 1948–1957 and the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, 1959–1978.