Valeria Larina

Valeria Borisovna Larina
Born	April 10, 1926 Leningrad, USSR
Died	February 25, 2008 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, Graphics
Movement	Realism

Valeria Borisovna Larina (Russian: Вале́рия Бори́совна Ла́рина; April 10, 1926 in Leningrad, USSR – 2008 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad). She was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 named as the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

Valeria Borisovna Larina was born April 10, 1926, in the Leningrad, USSR.

In 1946, Valeria Larina entered at the first course of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. There she studied under Piotr Belousov, Ivan Stepashkin, Alexander Zaytsev.

In 1953, Valeria Larina graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as artist of painting in Boris Ioganson workshop, together with Mark Klionsky, Leonid Kabachek, Izzat Klychev, Konstantin Molteninov, Vladimir Seleznev, Nikolai Galakhov, and other young artists. Her graduated work was genre painting named "Young Shipbuilders".

Since 1953, Valeria Larina has participated in Art Exhibitions. She painted portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes, and sketches from the life. It became the leading genre portrait of a contemporary. In 1950s she was most famous for her series of expressive portraits of steel-makers and workers from Kirov plant in Leningrad. Later she painted mainly portraits of females and etudes done from nature.

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