Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich (1884 - 1969)

He studied at the natural department of Moscow University (1902-1907), along the way visiting the studios of N.A. Martynov (since 1899) and K.F. Yuon (1904-1906). He also worked in the studio of K.F. Kapstein in Berlin (1910). Vatagin visited zoos and museums in Holland, France, England, Italy and Greece. He worked in India and on Malaya Zemlya, in Vladivostok and Paris, in Central Asia and in the Far North, in the Caucasus, in the Crimea, on the Amur and Volga, on the lakes of Lapland, in the Askania-Nova reserve. He worked a lot for the Darwin Museum, collaborated with S. I. Ognev and illustrated many scientific zoological publications. He completed works for well-known publishing houses of the first half of the 20th century - I.N. Knebel, I.D. Sytin and others. He illustrated textbooks and atlases, the German edition of A. Bram "The Life of Animals", a guide to the Moscow Zoological Garden in 1915, children's books by L. N. Tolstoy, I. S. Turgenev, V. V. Bianchi, D. N. Mamin -Sibiryak, D. London, R. Kipling, V. Inber and E. Seton-Thompson. The artist continued to illustrate children's books and scientific publications after the October Revolution. One of the significant works of Vatagin is the creation of illustrations for his favorite book "Mowgli" by R. Kipling. Vatagin also illustrated his own book - "The Image of an Animal. Notes of an Animalist", which was first published in 1957. Vatagin is a full member of the USSR Academy of Arts, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR and the RSFSR, a generally recognized "patriarch" of domestic animalistics. The artist's works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and other museums in Russia and abroad.

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Soviet Graphic Arts

 Lot   DESCRIPTION PRICE
Иллюстрация к книге про Северный полюс.
№ 413 Иллюстрация к книге про Северный полюс.

Illustration for the book about the North Pole.

Author: Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Year – 1930s.
Size – 23х30.
Technique – Mixed media on paper.

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Эскиз двух уток.
№ 3203 Эскиз двух уток.

Sketch of two ducks.

Author: Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Year – 1921.
Size – 35х22,5.
Technique – Pencil and watercolour on paper.

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  Lot   DESCRIPTION VALUED PRICE
Павианы.
№ 15 (λ) Павианы.

Baboons.

Author: Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Year: 1950s.
Technique: Mixed media on paper.
Size: 33,5х25,2.

Auction № 173
Auction №173
19 July 2022

Valued price
30000-150000 rub.
30000-150000 rub.
Северный морской путь.
№ 92 (λ) Северный морской путь.

Northern Sea Route.

Author: Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Year: 1930s.
Technique: Mixed media on paper.
Size: 33х30.

Auction № 179
Auction №179
29 June 2023

Valued price
40000-80000 rub.
40000-80000 rub.
Эскиз двух уток.
№ 121 Эскиз двух уток.

Sketch of two ducks.

Author: Vatagin Vasiliy Alekseevich

Year: 1921.
Technique: Pencil and watercolour on paper.
Size: 35х22,5.

Auction № 125
Russian and Western European art of 19-20th centuries
27 October 2011

Valued price
60000-100000 rub.
60000-100000 rub.

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