Language of flowers State Art Museum of Kazakh

Republic, Almaty

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st 1

908

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te R

ussia

n M

useu

m, S

t. Pe

ters

burg

Café 1907 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1918 in Petrograd State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The artist’s family (sold auction 87,650 GBP)

Alarm 1926 (A sketch for the 1934 painting) Perm State Art Gallery

Alarm (1934) State

Russian Museum, St.

Petersburg

Earthquake in the Crimea 1927-8 State Russian Museum,

St. Petersburg

Self-portrait 1926 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939) was a Russian, later Soviet, painter and writer. He passed from a period of interest in French Symbolism to deep delving in Russian themes and searches for national means of expression in the 1910s. His sources of inspiration were Russian icons, with their predominance of red, and the Russian countryside, with its blue sky and green expanses. Petrov-Vodkin’s works are diverse in genre, composition and content. His severe, almost ascetic still-lifes, portraits, genre compositions and thematic representations of military events are similar to icons and linked to the history of Russia and events taking place in it.Petrov-Vodkin was particularly interested in national roots, ideals and traditions in the mid-1910s, at the start of the First World War. Mother is based on a life motif, transformed by the master’s own personal vision. The outer appearance of the young peasant woman breast-feeding her baby grows into an image of the Madonna and Child, full of divine grace. The monumental figurative structure of the painting is intensified by the sonorous tones and dominant reds, the favourite colour of the Russian people.

Monumental head 1910-11

Sleeping puppy

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of

the

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pro

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Opera singer Vera Petrova-Zvantseva

Female head 1910

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ce (F

emal

e fa

ce) 1

921

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g to

the

mee

ting,

192

7

In the field 1920

Renunciation of Peter 1919 Drawing for the magazine Flame State Russian

Museum, St. Petersburg

Orpheus

Wom

an i

n a

chi

ton

191

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The

man

in

the

tuni

c 1

910

Sketch of the scenery for the staging of Diary of Satan (L.Andreev) 1922

Sketch of costume and make-up for the tragedy of Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov 1923

Sketch of costume and make-up for the tragedy of Alexander Pushkin Boris Godunov 1923

The Greek panel 1910

Sleeping woman 1913

Woman portrait

Hand drawing

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t 19

15 s

ketc

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Wom

en 1

920s

Spring 1935 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Cows in a barn, 1907

Sprin

g in

the

cou

ntry

192

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ketc

h)Na

tiona

l Ga

llery

of

Arm

enia

, Yer

evan

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g in

the

cou

ntry

192

9

Spring in the country 1929 (fragment)

The samovar

1926 Tretyakov

Gallery, Moscow

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e G

irls

on t

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olga

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Girls on the Volga 1915 State Tretyakov Gallery,

Moscow

Two girls 1915

Two girls 1915 (fragment)

Firs

t ste

ps 1

925

Stat

e Ru

ssia

n M

useu

m, S

t. Pe

ters

burg

On the line of fire 1916

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The wounded officer1915

The death of the commissar1928

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The death of the commissar1927 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

After the battle 1923

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Early morning, 1917

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ning

. Bat

hers

. 191

7

Maternity (auction)

Motherhood 1925

Mother 1919 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Sketch of a spherical

perspective1921

Sleeping child

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hild

, 192

2

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Mother and child 1915 (fragment)

Mother1913 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Mother 1913 (fragment)

Mother 1913 Kharkov Art Museum, Ukraine

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