Tatiana Martchenko Beautiful Original Signed Oil

Beautiful original oil painting by ex Soviet artist Tatiana Mikhailovna Martchenko (b. 1918), alternate spelling Tatyana Marchenko.
Subject: portrait of a girl, probably Bashkir girl
The work is oil on board and measures 36.5 x 24.5 inches
Framed behind plexiglass, measures 40.5 x 28.5 inches
Initialled lower left
Excellent cod thin. Frame/plexiglass with a few scuffs.
About the artist: Tatyana Marchenko was a pupil to renowned
Russian painter N. P. Krymov, who created a theory of color relations depending upon the power of light. It gives an artist an almost scientific precision in the search of tone. As Krymov said "... it allows to find a place for the items in the space avoiding unnecessary detail, convincingly render their materials, that means, to portray on canvas the genuine life." After graduating from the Moscow Art College named In the Memory of the Year 1905, Marchenko got a direction from the Ministry of Culture to work in Ufa (Bashkiria). She started to exhibit there in 1939. When the War broke out she returned to Moscow to work as a designer and constructor at a military plant, which soon was moved to Kuybshev (originally and now - Samara). There she started to work for the Windows of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union propagandist booths. The placards designed for them were copied all over the country. After the War Tatyana Marchenko came back to stay in Moscow. She actively exhibited and won recognition as an excellent portrait painter. Strong drawing education and a well trained eye allowed her to achieve exact likenesses easily. She also worked as a stilllife and landscape painter.
Exhibition:
1939 - Artists of Bashkiria in 20 Years, Ufa
1943 - Kuybyshev Region in the Days of the Patriotic War, Kuybshev (Samara)
1952 - Exhibition of Works by the Women-Artists of Moscow, Moscow
1954 - Group Exhibition, Moscow
1954-1987 - All regular autumn and spring exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Moscow
1956 - 2nd Exhibition of Works by the Artists of Moscow and the Region, Moscow
1957 - Socialist Moscow in the Works by Moscow
Artists, Moscow
1958 - 40th Anniversary of the Soviet Armed Forces, Moscow
1959 - Art Exhibition dedicated to the 21st
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Moscow
1961 - 15 Years Since the Day of Victory, Moscow
1963 - All Union Exhibition, Physical Culture and Sports in Fine Arts Moscow
1966-Art Exhibition dedicated to 23rd Congress of the CSPU Moscow
1967 -Artists of Moscow to the October Revolution
50th Anniversary, Moscow
1969 -Women Artists Exhibition dedicated to the World Women's Congress
1970 - All Union Exhibition, dedicated to V. I. Lenin Centennial, Moscow
1972 - All Union Exhibition, USSR
1976 - Masters of the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
1977 - The Land and the People, Moscow
1980 - All Republic Exhibition, Animalist Artists of Russia, Moscow
1981 - Monuments of History and Culture in the Works by Moscow Artists
1985 - Art Exhibition, dedicated to the 27th
Congress of the CPU, Moscow