Cafe Gurzuf [SEP] creator
Cafe Gurzuf
Cafe Gurzuf () is a painting by Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov () (1894-1971), well-known Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the Russian Federation, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the founders and brightest representative of the Socialist Realism style. In picture artist has depicted a view of summer cafe in Gurzuf, Crimea, in the middle of the 1950s.
History.
Alexander Samokhvalov is known in Soviet
the Leningrad Union of Artists. 
In 1963 painting "Cafe Gurzuf" was shown at the first solo exhibition of Alexander Samokhvalov in Leningrad in the Exhibition Halls of the Leningrad Union of Artists dedicated to the seventieth Anniversary of the artist. 
After the death of Alexander Samokhvalov the painting "Cafe Gurzuf" was kept by the artist's widow up to the early 1990s then was sold into the private collection.
In 1994, after a long break time picture "Cafe Gurzuf" was shown again in the Leningrad Union of