And here are some nice illustration to the Lermontov’s drama “Masquerade” (1835) by Nicolai Kuzmin
Here we have a Mikhail Vrubel’s illustration to “A Hero of Our Time” by Michail Lermontov. It is the famous duel episode, and the man who stands closer to onlooker has a lot of Lermontov’s features. (Lermontov himself was killed on a duel at the age of 26). We missed a birthday of Mikhail Lermontov, great Russian poet. Well, that’s pretty bad and I should blame myself. But let’s celebrate now!
Lermontov is the brightest figure in Russian Romanticism. Surely he is the most important person in Russian poetry after Alexander Pushkin (however I like his poetry more than Pushkin’s). And don’t forget about Lermontov’s prose. He was one of the founders of Russian psychological novel, so his “A Hero of Our Time” was a place where Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Goncharov etc began. So if you are interested in Russian culture&literature and haven’t read “A Hero of Our Time” yet, drop anything and do the reading!
Prince Grigory Gagarin - Oriental types from a travel album
Jean-Laurent Mosnier – Ivan Muravyov-Apostol with daughter Ivan Muravyov-Apostol (1762-1851) was a very educated man who made a brilliant career including military, diplomatic and court service. Particularly, for some time he was a tutor of Catherine the Great’s grandsons Alexander and Konstantin), later made a contribution to anti-French coalition. He had a reputation of a liberal so it’s not a surprise that all his three sons were a Decembrists (the elder Matvei was exiled till 1856, the second Sergei was one of the five hanged leaders and the last Ippolit killed himself after Chernigov regiment revolt)
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Jan Van Eyck Sint Barbara Year 1437 , oil study on panel (flemish primitifs )
Belle Baranceanu (American, 1902-1988), Bobcat, c.1937. Linocut, 301 x 224 mm. Sheet Size: 381 x 284 mm. Number 76/100
Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) Sheep Shearing (1908-1909) oil on canvas Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Andreas Reading
Sven Kroner (German, b.1973), Bärensee 1, 2004. Acrylic on canvas, 170.2 x 239.7 cm
Konstantin Korovin (Russia 1861-1939) Farmstead, Ostrovno (n.d.) oil on canvas 66.5 x 88 cm
Kees van Dongen (Dutch 1877-1968) Femme à la blouse blanche (n.d.) oil on canvas 65.8 x 50.3 cm
stanley spencer
~David Park~ Man in a Rowboat
Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, 1881-1946), Sailboat at Sunset, 1922. Watercolour and gouache on paper, 49 x 59 cm
otto dix - portrait of eleanor frey
GUSTAF CARLSTRÖM - Girl by the Water Edge
Lotte Laserstein (German-Swedish, 1898-1993) Spanish Woman (Spanische Frau), 1931
Title: Drill Baboon Artist: Belle Baranceanu Date: between 1930-1960 Medium: linocut Image Source: University of Wisconsin Digital Library Information Source: Library of Congress
Gustave Loiseau
Francis Picabia
Afternoon Shadows - William Merritt Chase
Johannes Vermeer - A Lady Writing, 1665
Frans Masereel (Belgian, 1889-1972), Le jeune penseur. Woodcut, 450 x 320 mm
Kiki Smith (American, born 1954)
~David Park~ Standing Couple~ (1958)
Bruno Vekemans (Belgian, b. 1952), Train, 1998. Lithograph
Clarence Gagnon (Canada 1881-1942) Evening on the North Shore (1924) pastel on wove paper 27 x 31 cm National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
André Lhote (French, 1885-1962), The Sailor. Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm
Yoshimune Arai - Bridge in Twilight, ca 1900-1910
Twilight in Izborsk Town, 1974, Sergei Ivanovich Osipov. Russian (1915 - 1985)
On the Board Walk, 1955, Nazina Vera Ivanovna. born in 1931 - Oil on Board -
Edouard Manet The Cafe-Concert 1879
Birger Birger-Ericson 1904-1994 Autumn Day in Vaxholm
siehda: #dailysketch 19.10.14
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Rudolph Belarski (1900-1983)
Dead, Man, Dead - artkwork by Robert A. Maguire (1921 – 2005)
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