Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko (1920 - 2001)

Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko

Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko (Russian: Борис Михайлович Лавренко) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter and teacher, a representative of the Leningrad school.

Boris Lavrenko participated in exhibitions since 1936, specialized in portraits, genre and thematic paintings, landscapes and still lifes. His artistic style is characterized by broad writing and bright brushstrokes, as well as the ability to convey light and volumetric effects. In the 1970s and 1980s his works became more decorative and generalized in form. Lavrenko's works are in many museums and private collections around the world.