(1948, People's Artist of the RSFSR) Yuri Vasnetsov. Series of Rhymes and Rhymes, sheet 30.5x22 cm, author's lithograph, 1948. - Mishin Valery Andreevich (b. 1939). In 1962 he graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art College, in 1968 - the painting department of the Leningrad Higher Art School named after. Mukhina. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, member of the International Federation of Artists of UNESCO. One of the greatest masters of contemporary art. Engaged in easel, book and printed graphics, painting, objects, installations, ex-libris. Since 1966, he has taken part in more than 300 exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia, as well as abroad - in Warsaw, Ghent, London, Mainz, Mexico City, Paris, Stockholm, etc. More than 20 of them are personal, including including in the Central Exhibition Hall ”Manege”. Diploma of a number of foreign exhibitions. In 1987 he was awarded a special prize by the House of Humor and Satire in Gabrovo, in 2002 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the 1st International Graphics Biennale in St. Petersburg. The artist has illustrated and designed more than 50 books. Following the traditions of modernism in his work, Valery Mishin is extremely diverse in book graphics and ex-libris. Some of his illustrations are made in the traditional manner, others are clearly conceptual, others are created using the method declared by the artist, which he called ”ReRealism”, or ”Residual Realism” (from the English ”ReRe” - ”Residual Realism”), when the artist makes prints from real objects, plants, fish and creates a variety of compositions, translating these objects into the plane of a paper sheet. The works of Valery Mishin are represented in the collections of the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the All-Russian Museum of A. S. Pushkin, the Museum of F. M. Dostoevsky, the Department of Prints of the Russian National Library, the Museum of the History of St. A. S. Pushkin, the Museum of Modern Art, the Kaliningrad Art Gallery, in the art museums of Bristol, Gabrovo, Cremona, Mainz, New Brunswick, as well as in numerous private collections in Russia, Australia, England, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Canada, China, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, USA, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Estonia, Yugoslavia, Japan. https://raskolnikovgallery.com