Andrei Vasilevich Korotkov

Korotkov was born in 1902 in the village of Alekseevka, also recorded as Alekseevtsy, near Kharkiv, then in the Russian Empire and now in Ukraine's Kharkiv region. One archive gives his birth date as 10 October 1902, a form of dating Soviet-era biographical dictionaries commonly recorded using the Julian calendar, which would place it in late October under the modern calendar. He graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute, in either 1929 or 1930 depending on the source, studying under A. A. Kokel, S. M. Prokhorov, and M. A. Sharonov.

He worked as an easel painter, book illustrator, and poster designer, and lived and worked for most of his career in Kyiv. He was a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR and, from 1944, the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Between 1946 and 1963 he collaborated with Soviet publishers including Iskusstvo, Sovetskaya Shkola, and Medvidav, and illustrated Nikolai Ostrovsky's How the Steel Was Tempered (1946) and In the Struggle for October (1957). His paintings include People's Avengers (1945) and They Attack (1949); his poster work includes Slalom (1950). He exhibited in city and republican exhibitions in the Ukrainian SSR from 1927, and his poster work appeared in the First All-Union Poster Exhibition, Poster in the Service of the Five-Year Plan, at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 1932.

One detailed archive records his death as 1 December 1993, presumably in Kyiv where he lived and worked; a second biographical listing confirms only that he was alive as of 1988 and gives no death date. The two accounts are consistent with each other, but the exact death date rests on a single reference.

No verbatim critical assessment of Korotkov's work by a named critic in a major outlet could be located. The available record is limited to descriptive biographical entries in Ukrainian and Russian art-historical archives, which document his output and institutional memberships without offering interpretive criticism, plus Sotheby's brief contextual framing of football as a recurring Soviet painting subject.

There is no publicly confirmed all-time auction record for Andrei Vasilevich Korotkov. The only located auction-market reference is a Sotheby's article naming a work titled Football Match by an artist identified only as "Korotkov," included in a Russian Pictures sale in London and framed alongside Alexander Deineka's 1920s football paintings as an example of the sport as a recurring Soviet art theme. The article gives no patronymic, sale year, lot price, or estimate, so it cannot be confirmed that this refers to the same Andrei Vasilevich Korotkov documented in Soviet-era biographical archives, rather than another artist sharing the surname. No other auction house, price database, or dealer listing for this artist could be identified.

This is a case of unusually thin public documentation for a market context. There is no catalogue raisonne, no confirmed price benchmark, and no identified current gallery or estate representation; verification of any work attributed to Korotkov would need to rely on Soviet-era Union of Artists records and museum holdings such as the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The surname Korotkov is shared by several unrelated public figures, and even the one located auction reference to an artist named "Korotkov" cannot be conclusively tied to this specific Andrei Vasilevich Korotkov. Any attribution or valuation should proceed only after independent archival confirmation.