Yakov
Alexandrovich Basov

Russia • 1914−2004

Biography and information

Studied at Simferopol in the Studio N. S. Samokish (1922 - 1931), then at the workers ' MUZZA Ilya Repin Russian Academy of arts in Leningrad (1931 - 1933) and later at the drawing faculty of the same Institute (1933 - 1937). From 1946 to 1962 he worked in oil in the genre of Maritime landscape, created a series of landscapes of Moscow, Leningrad, the Baltic States, the Russian North, the Crimea. From 1946 he lived in Yalta. Since 1962 he worked in the genre of landscape in the techniques of watercolor and oil.

Born in the city of Simferopol. Worked in the Studio of academician N. With. Samokish. He graduated from the Academy of arts in Leningrad. Member of the Union of artists of Ukraine. Personal exhibitions in Leningrad, Kiev, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Feodosia, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Yalta, Alupka. The work of Y. A. Basov purchased thirty museums of the former USSR. The artist's works are in private collections in Hungary, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Germany, England, Italy, Spain, Canada, Turkey.