Year of painting: 1949. Dimensions of the painting: 152.4 x 121.6 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: enamel, oil. Genre: nude. Style: abstract expressionism. Gallery: private collection.

Year of painting: 1949. Dimensions of the painting: 152.4 x 121.6 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: enamel, oil. Genre: nude. Style: abstract expressionism. Gallery: private collection.
Year of painting: 1593. Dimensions of the painting: 67 x 70 cm. Material: canvas. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: baroque. Gallery: Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy.
The year 1863 was marked for the painter Kramskoy not only by the creation of a group of artists around himself who refused to paint according to the subject academic canons, which would soon be called “Itinerants”, but also by his marriage to Sofya Nikolaevna Prokhorova. The testimonies of the master’s contemporaries have survived, which […]
Year of painting: 1532. Dimensions of the painting: 68.7 x 131.6 cm. Material: panel. Writing technique: oil. Genre: portrait. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
Year of painting: 1529. Dimensions of the painting: 80 x 114 cm. Material: panel. Writing technique: oil. Genre: genre painting. Style: Northern Renaissance. Gallery: Museum of Art History, Vienna, Austria.
Kramskoy’s painting Herodias (1884-1886) completes Kramskoy’s biblical trilogy. Like Laughter, the painting remained unfinished. Nevertheless, her pictorial qualities were highly appreciated by Repin, who advised Tretyakov to purchase Herodias from Kramskoy’s posthumous exhibition. The artist turned to one of the most dramatic stories in biblical history. But at the same time he chose not the […]