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Yuri Pen - Portrait of Marc Chagall, 1915 Pen was Chagall’s teacher

Krystyna Turska - Illustrations to Russians Fairy Tales







Ivan Veltz - Winter beginning, 1904

Evgraf Krendovsky - To the hunt, 1836

"May 1945" by Tkachev brothers. A soldier came back to his family

Karl Bryullov - Svetlana Guessing on her Future, 1836 "Svetlana" was a Romantic poem by Vasily Zhukovsky. The story is about a girl named Svetlana, who tried to guessing her future on Christmas Eve. She used mirror and candles, like is shown on the painting (that’s traditional Russian way of guessing). But then - yes, we’re speaking about Romantic poem - some evil forces arose, and Svetlana sunk into the depths of folkloric nightmare

Alexander Benois - Sketches of Petergof, 1900th










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Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935), Lomalo, 1923. Watercolour and pencil on paper, 27.5 x 43 cm

Hippolyte Petitjean (French, 1854 - 1929) The Orchard under the Snow, N/D

Fall Colors in the Bois de Boulogne ~ Berthe Morisot

Queen of Joy ~ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Piero della Francesca. Nativity. c.1470-75. detail

Harlequin’s Head, 1905 Pablo Picasso

Le Givre À Giverny, Claude Monet 1885

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