kuzma petrov-vodkin (russian, 1878-1939)4
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Chaos 1906
Epitaph 1904
Café 1925
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Self-portrait 1929 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939) was a Russian, later Soviet, painter and writer. He was first exposed to art as a child, when he took a few lessons from a local sign maker and icon painter. After secondary school, however, he wanted to join a railroad college, abandoning the artist life. He failed the entrance exams to the college, however, and instead began “Art Classes of Fedor Burov,” in his late teens. After the death of Burov two years later, Petrov-Vodkin took odd jobs painting in the city. Through his jobs and with his mother’s help, he was able to get an invitation to study in St. Petersburg, from 1895 to 1897. In art school, he later moved to Moscow and then Munich, graduating in 1904.After contracting pulmonary tuberculosis in 1927, Petrov-Vodkin was forced to quit painting. He thusly turned to writing, completing a number of works, including three semi-autobiographical novels, the first two of which are considered some of the finest Russian literature of the time. Petrov-Vodkin’s works were largely ignored after his death of tuberculosis, until the mid-1960’s when there came a renewed interest in both his artistic and literary works
Bathing Boys 1921 (sold at auction Sotheby's)
Bathing a red horse 1912 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The boy-rider 1912 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Etude for the painting Bathing the
Red Horse 1912
Etude for the painting Bathing the Red Horse 1912
Fantasy 1925 State Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg
Bathing boys 1926 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Boys (Playing Boys) 1911 State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg
Boys
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pai
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The head of a
young man
(Adam) 1913
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Fly birds
By the shore of Lake Ilmen1936
Youth (Kiss) 1913
State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg
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1915
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Warrior tormented by thirst, 1915 (fragment)
Hurricane 1914 State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg
Boy head1916
Sketches of the head 1926
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KissModel
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The head of a young man
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The dream (1910) State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg
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Model
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Seated Youth
Sitt
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Youn
g m
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The Worker 1926
In th
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In th
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Bacchante1912 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Sketch of Satan's makeup for the staging of Diary of Satan
(L.Andreev) 1922
Duo1917
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Sound: The legend of the twelve robbers – Male choir of St.Petersburg and Vladimir Miller; Vladimir Pasjukov 2017