In 1803, Kiprensky was left at the Academy as a pensioner. Today we would call it graduate school. Two years later, he took part in the competition for a big gold medal, having completed the program “Dmitry Donskoy after defeating Mamai.” The painting “Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo Field” depicts the moment when the news […]
Year of painting: 1920. Dimensions of the painting: 28.2 x 33.6 cm. Material: paper. Writing technique: watercolor, graphite pencil. Genre: portrait. Style: modern. Gallery: Museum-apartment of I.I.Brodsky, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Maslenitsa is one of the central works of Boris Kustodiev’s entire work. He varied this image more than once, but the scope of the national holiday, a truly “wide” carnival – not just as its last days, but as the highest peak of fun – he best conveyed in the picture of 1916 and its […]
Beginning in 1912, the artist has been creating a whole cycle of portraits of the Russian merchants, whom he was well acquainted with since childhood, when his family was only renting an outbuilding in a merchant’s house. The first of the works in this cycle is considered to be the painting “The Merchants”, but perhaps […]
At the end of 1911, while in Switzerland in a clinic, Boris Kustodiev responded to the request of the collector Fyodor Notgaft to paint a picture for him on a Russian theme at his discretion. This painting was “Merchants”. Kustodiev completed the work in 1912, having invested in it both memories of Russia, and love […]
Year of painting: 1922. The size of the painting: 12.5 x 22.8 cm. Material: wood. Writing technique: oil. Genre: nude. Style: modern. Gallery: private collection.