In 2023, the Voronezh Regional Art Museum celebrates its 90th anniversary. This event is dedicated to a series of exhibitions under the general title “Peers of the Museum”, which will present paintings from our collections created in 1933, the year the museum was founded.

The first of the series will be an exhibition of Efim Cheptsov’s painting “Social Competition at the Svetlana factory”. On the canvas, the artist reflected the everyday day of one of the largest production facilities in Leningrad, whose laboratory received the status of an industry in 1933, and the enterprise became the main scientific, technical and production center of Soviet electronics.

Efim Mikhailovich Cheptsov (1874-1950) painted paintings reflecting the lives of workers, peasants, and teachers. He devoted a lot of time to cultural and educational work among fellow countrymen: he designed and held holidays, read popular lectures on fine arts, led a theater circle, where he was both a director and an actor.

Now the artist’s works are kept in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, regional museums and private collections.

The painting presented at the exhibition was purchased by the museum from the author in 1937.

You can get acquainted with the painting in the hall of Soviet painting with a ticket to the permanent exhibition of the museum.

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The exhibition will run from February 15 to March 12, 2023.