DOI Heft:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0182
Studio- Talk
speak of the revival of the engraver's art in Holland without doubt among the finest achievements which
we have to thank Dupont for it, inasmuch as he, contemporary Russian painting can show in this field,
not merely in words but by his deeds, testified to and whenever Sapunoff's name is mentioned one
its claims in the world of art. always thinks of these paintings of his first, although
R. W. P. de Vries, J r. he must be credited with many meritorious per-
formances in other directions. It is an irony of
OSCOW.—An unlucky star seems to fate that this brilliant young artist should come to
have ruled over Russian art during such an untimely end in the cold waters of Finland
recent years, for at most of the while in the very fullness of life,
periodical exhibitions of the chief art
M
societies of late one has heard laments at the loss Forming part of the same group as Sapunoff's
of some member whom death has carried of all too collection were contributions by the Moscow painter
soon. Vroubel, Riabushkin, Serge Ivanoff, and M. Saryan, whose intensive motives from the Orient,
Seroff have now been followed by a younger always interesting, were this time less convincing;
colleague, Nicholas Sapunoff, who lost his life N. Millioti, who showed a capital male portrait;
during a boating excursion at a bathing resort in Paul Kuznetzoff, who in his landscape and figure
Finland last summer, when he was only thirty-two compositions from the Kirghiz steppe now shows a
years of age and in the full bloom of his talent, surer mastery of form; Sudeikin, and some others.
A collection of some forty works of this painter, Bogayevski showed three immense canvases
which, however, by no
means represented his
ceuvre, was the chief feature
of the last exhibition of the
"Mir Isskoustva" (World
of Art). _
Sapunoff already began
to attract attention when a
student under I. Levithan
at the Moscow School of
Art, and subsequent years
witnessed a very felicitous .
development of his gifts,
prominent among these
being a marked feeling for
colour and decoration. At
the exhibitions of recent
years his flower arrange-
ments, his still-life pieces,
and his designs for the
theatre in soft eloquent
colour combinations—the
artist had a predilection for
a quite original harmony
of rich orange in conjunc-
tion with deep blue—
always formed an oasis of
pictorial beauty from which
a temperament of no
ordinary persuasion and full
of the joy of life spoke to
the observer. These rich,
sumptuous floral bouquets
and still-life studies are "a tramp" pencil drawing for a book-cover by p. dupont
159
speak of the revival of the engraver's art in Holland without doubt among the finest achievements which
we have to thank Dupont for it, inasmuch as he, contemporary Russian painting can show in this field,
not merely in words but by his deeds, testified to and whenever Sapunoff's name is mentioned one
its claims in the world of art. always thinks of these paintings of his first, although
R. W. P. de Vries, J r. he must be credited with many meritorious per-
formances in other directions. It is an irony of
OSCOW.—An unlucky star seems to fate that this brilliant young artist should come to
have ruled over Russian art during such an untimely end in the cold waters of Finland
recent years, for at most of the while in the very fullness of life,
periodical exhibitions of the chief art
M
societies of late one has heard laments at the loss Forming part of the same group as Sapunoff's
of some member whom death has carried of all too collection were contributions by the Moscow painter
soon. Vroubel, Riabushkin, Serge Ivanoff, and M. Saryan, whose intensive motives from the Orient,
Seroff have now been followed by a younger always interesting, were this time less convincing;
colleague, Nicholas Sapunoff, who lost his life N. Millioti, who showed a capital male portrait;
during a boating excursion at a bathing resort in Paul Kuznetzoff, who in his landscape and figure
Finland last summer, when he was only thirty-two compositions from the Kirghiz steppe now shows a
years of age and in the full bloom of his talent, surer mastery of form; Sudeikin, and some others.
A collection of some forty works of this painter, Bogayevski showed three immense canvases
which, however, by no
means represented his
ceuvre, was the chief feature
of the last exhibition of the
"Mir Isskoustva" (World
of Art). _
Sapunoff already began
to attract attention when a
student under I. Levithan
at the Moscow School of
Art, and subsequent years
witnessed a very felicitous .
development of his gifts,
prominent among these
being a marked feeling for
colour and decoration. At
the exhibitions of recent
years his flower arrange-
ments, his still-life pieces,
and his designs for the
theatre in soft eloquent
colour combinations—the
artist had a predilection for
a quite original harmony
of rich orange in conjunc-
tion with deep blue—
always formed an oasis of
pictorial beauty from which
a temperament of no
ordinary persuasion and full
of the joy of life spoke to
the observer. These rich,
sumptuous floral bouquets
and still-life studies are "a tramp" pencil drawing for a book-cover by p. dupont
159