KRASNOV, ALEXEIJ (born 1923), painting: "Cityscape with couple under umbrella", oil on canvas, signed lower right in Cyrillic and inscribed in Cyrillic on the reverse. View over an autumnal park to a city silhouette; in the foreground cut by a tree the contours of a couple embracing under a red umbrella. City veduta in bright colors with a broad brushstroke. Work of the Russian realist, who was born in the Urals, studied there at the Academy in Yekaterinburg and last worked in Paris, where he developed his expressive, impasto-moving style in the aftermath of Impressionism and Fauvism. Canvas 50 x 40 cm.