"Large Painting After Boris Kustodiev Or Kustodiev "beauty" 1998 Russian Painter"
Large oil on canvas featuring a fine interpretation of the work “Beauty” painted by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev in 1915.Our 1998 painting is anonymous.
On the back of the canvas, the artist has inscribed in Russian the name of Kustodiev B., his date of birth “1878”, the title of the work “Beauty”, the date of execution of the original work ‘1913’ (which is actually 1915), and finally the dimensions and date of execution “1998” of the present work.
Dimensions of canvas 69.5x89 cm
Beautiful molded wooden frame by Maison Delf Paris., 89.5x109 cm.
Beauty (Russian: Красавицa) is a painting by the famous Russian painter Boris Koustodiev (1878-1927) created in 1915.
The painting depicts a merchant who has just woken up in the middle of a dream, half-sitting on her bed in sweet, indecisive anticipation. It's a blend of several styles, including Romanticism, the Louboks and Neo-Classicism, as practiced by Titian and Rubens. The heroine of Koustodiev's painting is the generously-shaped Moscow Art Theatre actress Faïna Chevtchenko. This was what the painter appreciated in her, for whom thin women did not inspire creativity. Later, he created three more paintings based on the same model, but differing from his first composition in relatively minor details. It seems that Kustodiev regarded “Beauty” as a real program and, at the same time, as the pinnacle of his stylistic research. The original 1915 painting is now in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, as is the 1921 version. Variants from 1918 and 1919 are in the Tula Museum of Fine Arts and in a private collection in Russia.
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