of Lydia Timoshenko was artist David Zagoskin (1900–1942), who from 1926 to 1930 was also a member of the "Circle of Artists". The optimism and joy of the scene stem from the overall mood during the Thaw of the post-Stalinist period and is conveyed by Samokhvalov in the picture. Exhibitions and publications Cafe Gurzuf was first exhibited in 1960 at the grand Annual Exhibition of works by the leningrad artists of 1960 in the Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In 1963 Cafe Gurzuf was shown at the first solo exhibition of Samokhvalov in Leningrad in the Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of the artist. After Samokhvalov's death the painting was kept by his widow until the early 1990s when it was sold to a private collector. In 1994, after a long break time Cafe Gurzuf was shown again in the Leningrad Union of Artists at the exhibition of The Paintings of 1950-1980s by the Leningrad School artists. In 2012 the painting was exhibited in "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall on The Art Fair devoted to 80th Anniversary of Saint-Petersburg Union of Artists. It was reproduced in the exhibition catalog. In 2007 Cafe Gurzuf was published in the book Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School by Sergei V. Ivanov, in Russian and English. The history of this painting was described in the article by S. Ivanov, dedicated to the wife of the artist and published in 2015 to her centenary anniversary. See also In the Sun painting Artist Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov (1894—1971) References Bibliography Выставка произведений ленинградских художников 1960 года. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1963. C.16. Александр Николаевич Самохвалов. Выставка произведений. Каталог. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1963. C.20. Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.57. Ленинградские художники. Живопись 1950—1980 годов. Каталог. Санкт-Петербург, Выставочный центр ПСХ, 1994. C.4. Самохвалов Александр Николаевич. В годы беспокойного солнца. Санкт-Петербург, Всемирное слово, 1996. Alexander Samokhvalov. Cafe Gurzuf. 1956 / Sergei Ivanov. Unknown socialist realism. The Leningrad school. Saint-Petersburg, NP—Print, 2007. P.2-3, 342, 346, 351, 354, 369, 394, 416, 435, 442. , . Самохвалов А. Кафе Гурзуф. 1956. / 80 Лет Санкт-Петербургскому Союзу художников. Юбилейная выставка. СПб, 2012. С.210. Иванов С. В. Что движет солнце и светила. // Петербургские искусствоведческие тетради. Вып. 34. СПб, 2015. С.228-232. Links Sotheby's (2013) MacDougall's (2018) 1956 paintings Paintings by Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov