Curatorial project: "Petrov-Vodkin's Circle"

Painter, graphic artist, monumentalist, genre artist, landscapist, portraitist. Studied at VKhUTEMAS in Moscow (1921), transferred to the State Free Art Studios in Petrograd (finished in 1925). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1925). Member and secretary of the Circle of Artists (1926), contributed to all its exhibitions. Member of RABIS (from 1929). Member of the Union of Artists (from 1944; applicant from 1932). Stamp operator at a tannery (1919–1920); joined the Red Army (1920–1921). Taught at a reformatory (the 1920s), Art-Industrial College in Leningrad (1929–1934). At the exhibition of graduates of the Academy of Arts in 1925, Verbov exhibited two still lifes in oil in addition to his diploma work “Composition” and drawing “Roofer” (“Katalog vystavki zaklyuchitel’nykh rabot studentov Leningradskoi Akademii khudozhestv”. Academy of Arts, Lenin – grad, 1925, p. 7, Nos. 6 and 7). We can confidently assume that the still lifes in this publication signed and dated 1923 were part of that exhibition. In 1935, at the First Exhibition of Leningrad Artists, the Russian Museum acquired “Portrait of a Senegalese Woman”. (Later, in connection with the policy of increasing the “battle against formalism”, it was returned to the artist, and has not survived.)