This canvas belongs to a cycle of twenty-two works painted before the revolution by Pavel Filonov entitled Entry into World Prosperity . The artist created a series of anti-urbanist pictures reflecti...

Pavel Filonov ’s reflections on the malevolent influence of the city on the life of human beings were always present in his art. They were sometimes expressed in such metaphorical compositions as thi...

Pavel Filonov regarded himself as a “non-Party Bolshevik” and served on the Military Revolutionary Tribunal in Bessarabia during the Russian Civil War. He was one of the first to understand the trage...

Pavel Filonov never experienced any qualms about simultaneously employing different styles and devices. He often combined abstraction with objectivity, intermingling artistic traditions in correspond...

The evolution of Pavel Filonov ’s perception of the world in the late 1910s and early 1920s led the artist to employ, in the majority of cases, abstract means of expression. As he explained: “Life is...