Sergei Shablavin (b. 1944, Kirsanov) graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1967 and studied optics and the psychology of perception. From the mid-1970s the round canvas, the tondo, became his signature format. Structure of a Circle is the name of one of his series. A 1993 tondo from this series, of the same 84 cm diameter, was offered at Sotheby's in 2018. His works are in museum collections, including the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA).
Work / No. 32
Winter Dream
2016 · Oil on canvas · 100 × 100 cm
Sergei Shablavin (b. 1944) is a physicist by training: he graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and studied optics and the psychology of perception. Since the mid-1970s he has worked with the circular format. In 1979 the critic Vitaly Patsyukov wrote about him in the journal A–Ya. He had painted winter before: his Winter (1981) is known. His works are in museum collections, including the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA).
