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The garish effects and spicy tones of this painting are encountered in many of Nikolai Kalmakov ’s works on themes from Greek mythology. Artemis and the Sleeping Endymion was painted in 1917 and combines features from both the Neoclassical Revival and Art Nouveau, with its tendency for overt decorativism. Kalmakov depicts the moment when the virgin huntress Artemis is entranced by Endymion, the h...
The public first saw Supper – or Lady in a Restaurant, as Léon Bakst himself preferred to call the picture – at the fifth World of Art exhibition in St Petersburg in 1903. The painting was a succès d...