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For more than half a century, the brush in my hand, touching the canvas or paper, reflects on the world I create.



At first, it was the world of a child, a world of discovery, immediate but without knowledge and experience. Impressions from the first artistic experiences turned into a vague desire to learn this mesmerizing craft, to convey the world with colors. A foolish desire.

I diligently studied for a long time, and they taught me socialist realism, proper perspective, correct composition, and realistic depiction of the environment, diligently erasing the world of the child and replacing it with templates understandable to everyone. Such a beautiful road leading to a dead end.

Still Life with Fruits

Still Life with Fruits

2016 | canvas, oil | 81 x 90 cm
Starting price: 180.000 USD

Chat

Chat

2012 | canvas, oil | 73 x 83 cm
Starting price: 210.000 USD

Lake of meetings

Lake of meetings

2007 | cardboard, oil | 40 x 48 cm
Starting price: 210.000 USD

Autumn

Autumn

2010 | canvas, oil | 50 x 60 cm
Starting price: 130.000 USD

Turning Road

Turning Road

2017 | canvas, oil | 80 x 90 cm
Starting price: 165.000 USD

Place in Avezzano

Place in Avezzano

2007 | canvas, oil | 50 x 50 cm
Starting price: 140.000 USD

Pine

Pine

2017 | canvas, oil | 60 x 70 cm
Starting price: 114.000 USD

Sleeping Barges

Sleeping Barges

2012 | canvas, oil | 50 x 60 cm
Starting price: 165.000 USD

After the storm

After the storm

2014 | cardboard, oil | 44 x 55 cm
Starting price: 160.000 USD

Lake

Lake

2013 | canvas, oil | 81 x 97 cm
Starting price: 180.000 USD

River Bend

River Bend

2014 | cardboard, oil | 50 x 60 cm
Starting price: 190.000 USD

Whose goat?

Whose goat?

2017 | canvas, oil | 60 x 60 cm
Starting price: 140.000 USD

In parallel, I studied music, and only music later helped me not to throw the brushes into the corner. Classical music helped with the harmony of colors, and jazz with improvisation of form. It took 20 years to find the language.

Country House in Winter

Country House in Winter

2020 | watercolor, pastel | 35 x 41 cm
Starting price: 102.000 USD

Houses Group

Houses Group

2007 | watercolor, pastel | 43 x 52 cm
Starting price: 104.000 USD

Wood in front of the house

Wood in front of the house

2013 | canvas, oil | 60 x 70 cm
Starting price: 105.000 USD

Tolya's corner

Tolya's corner

2011 | canvas, oil | 60 x 60 cm
Starting price: 150.000 USD

Magpie

Magpie

2002 | canvas, oil | 65 x 80 cm
Starting price: 180.000 USD

Green Night

Green Night

2014 | canvas, oil | 70 x 57 cm
Starting price: 150.000 USD

Two Ships

Two Ships

2021 | canvas, oil | 50 x 60 cm
Starting price: 110.000 USD

The Last Tree

The Last Tree

2021 | canvas, oil | 105 x 120 cm
Starting price: 410.000 USD

Night violinist

Night violinist

2011 | paper, watercolor, pastel | 41 x 47 cm
Starting price: 310.000 USD

The Last Ship

The Last Ship

2021 | cardboard, oil | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: not for sale

Dogs

Dogs

2020 | canvas, oil | 61 x 50 cm
Starting price: 105.000 USD

Red Road

Red Road

2021 | canvas, oil | 77 x 89 cm
Starting price: 190.000 USD

Music helped me forget the canons and templates, combining the world of childhood with the feelings of an adult and the desire to convey a simple truth... A painting is not for 5 minutes, it hangs on the wall and people live with it, it helps to live, evoking ONLY POSITIVE EMOTIONS and then... I stood behind the canvas (like in an ancient Russian icon, with its sincerity, reverse perspective, and desire to help). Already living in Europe, I conducted an experiment - I started selling paintings with the condition that the buyer could return the painting and get the money back within a week. Not a single painting was returned.

Logs in the forest

Logs in the forest

2019 | canvas, oil | 50 x 50 cm
Starting price: 118.000 USD

Kiosk

Kiosk

2010 | cardboard, oil | 50 x 50 cm
Starting price: 110.000 USD

Autumn cat

Autumn cat

2020 | canvas, oil | 55 x 60 cm
Starting price: 115.000 USD

Pancake Seller

Pancake Seller

2021 | canvas, oil | 50 x 60 cm
Starting price: 145.000 USD

Blue houses in winter

Blue houses in winter

2014 | paper, acrylic | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: 110.000 USD

Pitcher with Sunflowers

Pitcher with Sunflowers

2014 | canvas, oil | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: 114.000 USD

Green bottle and Pears

Green bottle and Pears

2007 | canvas, oil | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: 120.000 USD

By The Window

By The Window

2021 | canvas, oil | 60 x 70 cm
Starting price: not for sale

Harbor

Harbor

2015 | canvas, oil | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: 102.000 USD

Still Life by Freud

Still Life by Freud

2009 | watercolor, pastel | 30 x 30 cm
Starting price: 102.000 USD

Angel and Cat

Angel and Cat

2019 | watercolor, pastel | 30 x 30 cm
Starting price: not for sale

Painting Blue coffee pot

Painting Blue coffee pot

2007 | cardboard, oil | 48 x 39 cm
Starting price: 145.000 USD

I'm standing there, behind the canvas, in my every pictures and talk to you. Successfully or not - it's not for me to judge. This is my language and every time I paint, it feels like the last time. This has been going on for many years.
I don't have much time left, and it is very important for me that those for whom I paint — whoever they are — see that I give them all that I have. And I expect the same from them.
I like painting and I love to paint. I guess I was born to do this.

- Anatoli Gostev (1946 - 2022)

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