Igor Bitman (Russia-France)
Igor Bitman was born in 1953, the year when Stalin died. He was a dissident painter in the USSR who was saved from poverty by his talent as a portrait painter. He exhibited in private flats and took part in the nonconformist Muscovite painters' exhibition at the VDNKH Palace of Culture which ended in clashes with the authorities.
He left the USSR in 1981. He learnt his solid art in the Russian Academies. He is aware of it and it shows.
Bitman vigorously places himself in the Grand Tradition illustrated by such painters as Petrov-Vodkine and Balthus.
Igor Bitman lives and works in Paris, France. The winner of the numerous awards, his works are in the private and museum collections in Switzerland, Canada, USA, Italy, Russia and France.
(с)Igor Bitman
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