Sofia Velikhova

Sculptress, applied artist. Born in the family of Boris Baskakov in the village of Kolodets in Oryol Province (1904). Studied at the Leningrad Technical College of Art and Industry (1923–26) and under Alexander Matveyev and Robert Bach at the VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN in Leningrad (1926–30). Member of the Union of Artists (1932). Designed models at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (1948–64). Died in St Petersburg (1994). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1937). Contributed to the Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art by Artists of Omsk Region Dedicated to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the House of Party Education in Omsk (1943), Sixth Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art by Artists of Omsk in Omsk (1944), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1947), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1950), All-Union Art Exhibition of 1950 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1950–51), All-Union Art Exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery, House of the Artist and Union of Artists at 25/9 Gorky (now Tver) Street in Moscow (1955), Exhibition of Folk, Applied and Decorative Art of the RSFSR at the Vladimir Lenin Library in Moscow (1956–57), Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1957), Autumn Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Union of Artists in Leningrad (1958) and Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).