Leonid Sokov

Russian | 1941 - 2018

Leonid Sokov was a Russian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1941. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky Boulevard have featured Leonid Sokov's work in the past.Leonid Sokov's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 31 USD to 182,589 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 182,589 USD for Untitled, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2019. Leonid Sokov has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ARTMargins in February 2023. The artist died in 2018.

Artist's alternative names: L. Sokov

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Meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti ,1994

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Two profiles

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Bear and Marilyn ,1986

By Leonid Sokov

Meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti - Leonid Sokov

Meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti ,1994

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Meeting of two sculptures (Lenin and Giacometti ,1994

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Old and New Russian Symbols - Leonid Sokov

Old and New Russian Symbols ,1990

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Stalin and Marilyn Monroe at the Table

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Marilyn Monroe and the Russian Bear

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Past Exhibitions

«This Is the Best We Have». The Art Newspaper Russia Selection

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Gogolevsky Boulevard

Moscow | Russia

Feb 18,2025 - May 18,2025

The Object. Space. The Human: Art of the Second Half of the 20th 鈥� Early 21st Centuries From the Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery

New Tretyakov Gallery

Moscow | Russia

Jun 11,2022 - Sep 11,2022

ONLINE: Everyday Soviet: Soviet Industrial Design and Nonconformist Art (1959-1989)

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

New Brunswick | New Jersey | USA

Jun 05,2021 - Feb 13,2022

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Articles

ARTMargins 03/02/2023

Although fewer than two decades have passed since its opening, the Kumu Art Museum, located in Estonia鈥檚 capital city Tallinn, is widely acknowledged for its critical exhibitions that often highlight...

Made In Bed 20/01/2022

Chelyabinsk is an industrial Russian city in the Urals, located some 2500 miles away from London.

ArtDaily 27/08/2019

Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair announces the highlights of this year鈥檚鈥� commercial and not-for-profit programmes.

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鈥� ..While some artists examined societal attitudes and the hollow authority of Soviet power, Sokov addressed the monotony and deprivations of daily life... 鈥�
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

鈥� ..Sokov鈥檚 multi-layered visual and verbal puns provide the viewer with a deeper insight into contemporary culture, politics, and life in general... 鈥�
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University