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Lilac
Read more...Boris Kustodiev painted Lilac at the family estate of Pavlovskoe in Kostroma Province. The picture depicts the artist’s wife Yulia Yevstafievna Proshinskaya (1880–1942) with his daughter Irina Borisovna Kustodieva (1905–1981). This genre-like canvas is painted in a manner typical of Kustodiev, full of the light and joy of a fresh impression. Set against the background of a sunlit house and lilac ...
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Portrait of Princess Olga Orlova
Read more...Valentin Serov followed the traditions of Russian ceremonial portraiture, as exemplified by Dmitry Levitsky in the eighteenth century and Karl Brullov in the nineteenth century. But the artist’s psyc...
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Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev
Read more...This unfinished picture belongs to a series of portraits of members of the Russian creative intelligentsia painted by Valentin Serov from the mid-1890s onwards. The artist first made the acquaintance...
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