Russian Artist, Ilya Glazunov, sitting in front of his original Controversial painting ‘Mystery of the Twentieth Century’

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Ilya Glazunov (1930-) sits in front of his original version of ‘Mystery of the Twentieth Century’ a huge canvas completed in 1972 and called “The Painting the Russians well never see” by western journalists. Glazunov fell out of favor with the Communist Party when he refused to remove ‘Mystery of the Twentieth Century’ from a Ministry of Culture exhibit in the Soviet Union. Glazunov is also known for his illustrations of the writings of Feodor Dostoyevsky. In 1987 Glazunov founded the All-Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Moscow. Photo by Chuck Nacke

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Size: 5583px × 3605px
Location: Glazunov Studio, Moscow, Russia, Former Soviet Union
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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