A. Glagolev's watercolor "The Red Army - defender of October", 1920s

Paper, watercolor. The size is 10*10 cm. Excellent collector's condition. The reverse side is clean. Guarantee of authenticity.

Alexander Nikolaevich Glagolev (1893 - 1970s) was a Soviet graphic artist and illustrator. Born into a family of a paramedic and a nurse, he graduated from the Moscow Military Medical School. Participated in the First World War and the Civil War. From about 1919 (according to his autobiography), he began collaborating with the Tver branch of the Window of Satire of GROWTH as a cartoonist. Then in the 1920s he worked as an illustrator in Tverskaya Pravda and Tverskaya Village. In 1928, at the invitation of the editor of the newspaper Krasny Krym, he moved to Simferopol, where he headed the newspaper's illustration department. In 1929, he became one of the founders and leaders of the Isofront art group. He made active efforts to Sovietize Crimean art, search for "nuggets" from the people, and ideologically educate professional artists. Glagolev's activity was criticized by K. F. Bogaevsky. Participant of the exhibition "Art of the Soviet Crimea" at the State Museum of Oriental Cultures (1935). He took part in the Great Patriotic War, participated in the defense of Sevastopol and the liberation of Simferopol. 

He is known as a graphic artist. In his style and presentation of material, A. Glagolev relied on the leading graphic artists of the first decade of Soviet power. The laconic, grotesque manner of the 1920s sheets, in which innovations in the field of typeface, compositional collages, and versatility allowed the artist to create dynamic, ringing images, give way to the depiction of the 1930s.