Yuri Pimenov. Wartime Moscow

Yuri Pimenov's painting "Wartime Moscow" was painted in 1943. The artist shows the city in winter: the descent from the Moskvoretsky Bridge, with the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin in view. A soldier leads by the hand a boy and a woman holding a child in her arms.

Yuri Pimenov (1903–1977) was born and died in Moscow. A painter, graphic artist, stage designer and poster artist, in 1925 he became one of the founders of the Society of Easel Painters (OST), and one of his best-known works became the painting "New Moscow" (1937). In 1941–1945 Pimenov worked for the "TASS Windows", and in 1943 he was sent to the North-Western Front near Staraya Russa and to Leningrad, where he created a series of works on military themes.

The painting is executed in oil on canvas. Later the artist became an Academician of the USSR Academy of Arts (1962) and People's Artist of the USSR (1970).