👩‍🎨 On September 6, a solo exhibition of works by Surjit Akre, a renowned artist and the first Indian graduate of the Ilya Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, opened at the Gallery of the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society.

The vernissage was inaugurated by Denis Alipov, Russian Ambassador to India.

🖼 The exhibition includes paintings created during her studies in Russia and new works. All of them are dedicated to a woman - her fragile beauty and unique connection with nature.

🟣 A master of portrait painting and landscape painter, for 30 years of creative activity Surjit created more than 4000 canvases and organised 81 personal exhibitions. S.Akre's paintings are in museums and private collections both in India and abroad.

🟣General Director of the National Gallery of Modern Art Sanjeev Kishor Gautam - the guest of the ceremony - noted the special style of the master, formed on the basis of the traditional Russian school of painting.

🟣 Surjit Akre is the President of the Roerich Art Club at the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in New Delhi. For her significant contribution to strengthening Russian-Indian friendship and popularisation of Russian culture, she was awarded the Pushkin Medal in 2009.

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