# Illarion Golitsyn

Illarion Vladimirovich Golitsyn (Russian: Илларион Владимирович Голицын; May 20, 1928 – March 14, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, author of articles on art and art history.

## Life and career

Golitsyn was born in Moscow, to a family of graphic artist Vladimir Golitsyn and Elena Petrovna, née Countess Sheremeteva, thus coming from an old princely family of Golitsyn and the noble counts and princely family of Sheremetev.
He started to study art with his father Vladimir Golitsyn, and following the advice of Pavel Korin.
In 1946–1953, Golitsyn studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, in the department of artistic woodworking. In 1957, he studied etching techniques at the Ignatius Nivinsky studio under E. S. Teis.
From the mid-1950s, he was close to Vladimir Favorsky and his “Novogireevo circle of independent artists” based at the outskirts of Moscow in Novogireevo district including Dmitry Zhilinsky, Nina Zhilinskaya, Dmitry Shakhovskoy, Ivan Efimov and Nina Efimova, Lev Kardashov and Lyudmila Kardashova.
In 1958, Golitsyn won a silver medal at the World Festival in Vienna for the engraving "On the Balcony", a work from the series "Everyday Life in the Suburbs" (1955–1957).
In March 1963, at a meeting with the Soviet art intelligentsia in Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev publicly attacked poet Andrei Voznesensky and writer Vasily Aksenov, as well as Illarion Golitsyn, who supported Voznesensky. .
Until the 1970s, he worked mainly in the graphic genre, then painted a lot in oil and watercolor.
In 2003, for a series of paintings and graphic works "House in Novogireevo" he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art. .
Golitsyn was active art educator and teacher, promoting his artistic manner and views among his pupils, who included Ivan Golitsyn, Aharon April, Valentin Korzhov, Raphael Сanossa, Nikolaj Belkov, Leonid Borisov.

## Gallery

* Looking Glass. 1992. Watercolor
* The Three Portraits, 1992. Gouache and Watercolor on cardboard, 38,5х31
* Glares. 1991. Watercolor

## Solo exhibitions

* 1962 — Editorial board of the magazine "Yunost".
* 1970 — Solo exhibition at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
* 1979 — Solo exhibition. Exhibition hall of the MOSKh RSFSR.
* 1988 — Exhibition jointly with A. Pologova. Moscow House of Artists.
* 1993 — Solo exhibition "Watercolors from the collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts". The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
* 1999 — Personal exhibition. "Watercolor". The Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum, Pushkin.
* 2001 — Personal exhibition "Light Canvases". The State Institute of Art Studies. Moscow.
* 2002 — Exhibition "The Golitsyn House". Russian Academy of Arts.
* 2005 — Personal exhibition "Illarion Golitsyn from the collection of the Russian Museum". St. Petersburg
* 2005 — Exhibition jointly with V. V. Kutsevich. A. N. Radishchev Saratov Art Museum.
* 2006 — Personal exhibition. Lipetsk Regional Art Gallery.
* 2008 — Personal exhibition for the 80th anniversary of her birth. The Russian Academy of Arts.
* 2008 — Personal exhibition for the 80th anniversary of her birth. From the collection of the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve. Novgorod.
* 2009 — Personal exhibition. Gallery "Russian World". Paris.
* 2013 — Personal exhibition for the 85th anniversary of his birth. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
* 2013 — "Illarion Golitsyn. To be yourself. For the 85th anniversary of his birth". State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow

## Books and essays

* Conversation about art and about the artists. Articles. Stories / I. V. Golitsyn. — M: Russian World, 2015. — 608 p.: ill. — (Great Moscow Library).