DOI issue:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0183
Studio- Talk
destined for the decoration of a palace in Moscow ;
in all three great mat/rise was apparent, but they
left one cold because the painter had merely
repeated his earlier compositions on a magnified
scale. Very many of the works exhibited were
consecrated to the theatre, which is attracting ever
more and more Russian artists to its service.
These included some thirty pictures by N. Roerich
—decorative designs for Ibsen's " Peer Gynt," &c,
painted in his usual broad manner and exceedingly
effective—some costume designs by Anisfeld, and
designs by Shervashidze and Kustodieff, the latter,
however, being at his best in a very successful genre
picture of Russian provincial life. Turschoff did
not appeal so strongly as in previous years, and
Petroff-Vodkin's large decorative compositions gave
one the impression of being somewhat artificial and
poster-like.
Yakovleff, and the eminently decorative wood-
sculpture of Matveeff.
The graphic section calls for a few words. Here,
besides some fine woodcuts by Mme. Ostroumova
I noted some clever linoleographs by Falileff. A
water-colour drawing by Mme. Chambers-Bilibina
architectural sketches by G. Lukomski, and illustra-
tions by G. Narbutt also attracted attention; the
drawings of the last named in particular showed
that he has made marked progress.
For a long time past Victor Vasnetzoff has made
it a rule to abstain from participating in the usual
annual exhibitions of the various societies of
artists in Russia, and instead of doing so to hold
special exhibitions of his own works. Some two
years ago he offered a survey of what he had
Amongst the original IHHHI!HSi^H89BH9i^HHnfflHHB^^HHEN9nBBHHIH
members of the "Mir
Isskoustva" group K.
Somoff made an attractive
display, while A. Benois
sent only some trifles of
little importance. Dobu-
shinski captivated by purely
outward mastery while lack-
ing his earlier warmth and
intimacy; and Lanceray,
Bakst, and Golovin were
not in evidence at all. Of
Somoff's three canvases
his charming Dame et Arle-
quin, with an eighteenth-
century fete de mat in the .ii. *m
background, left the best "MlBMR'/'jBaiMiW^BPfjJ
all-round impression; in . ; >
his portrait of a Moscow • ••
society lady, on the other :. ,<^JKI\^HHh|11B^|
hand, interest was concen-
trated chiefly on the de-
lightfully painted toilette
and the masterly treatment BBI
of the hands. Other works jgH
in the domain of portraiture
which deserve mention are HBHflMKgl
the vivacious drawings by
N. Ulianoff of the painter
Bogaievski and the writer
Count Alexis Tolstoy, a
large portrait group by the * * dame et arlequin " vi k. somoff
talented caricaturist A. (" Mir'Isskoustva" Exhibition, Moscow)
160
destined for the decoration of a palace in Moscow ;
in all three great mat/rise was apparent, but they
left one cold because the painter had merely
repeated his earlier compositions on a magnified
scale. Very many of the works exhibited were
consecrated to the theatre, which is attracting ever
more and more Russian artists to its service.
These included some thirty pictures by N. Roerich
—decorative designs for Ibsen's " Peer Gynt," &c,
painted in his usual broad manner and exceedingly
effective—some costume designs by Anisfeld, and
designs by Shervashidze and Kustodieff, the latter,
however, being at his best in a very successful genre
picture of Russian provincial life. Turschoff did
not appeal so strongly as in previous years, and
Petroff-Vodkin's large decorative compositions gave
one the impression of being somewhat artificial and
poster-like.
Yakovleff, and the eminently decorative wood-
sculpture of Matveeff.
The graphic section calls for a few words. Here,
besides some fine woodcuts by Mme. Ostroumova
I noted some clever linoleographs by Falileff. A
water-colour drawing by Mme. Chambers-Bilibina
architectural sketches by G. Lukomski, and illustra-
tions by G. Narbutt also attracted attention; the
drawings of the last named in particular showed
that he has made marked progress.
For a long time past Victor Vasnetzoff has made
it a rule to abstain from participating in the usual
annual exhibitions of the various societies of
artists in Russia, and instead of doing so to hold
special exhibitions of his own works. Some two
years ago he offered a survey of what he had
Amongst the original IHHHI!HSi^H89BH9i^HHnfflHHB^^HHEN9nBBHHIH
members of the "Mir
Isskoustva" group K.
Somoff made an attractive
display, while A. Benois
sent only some trifles of
little importance. Dobu-
shinski captivated by purely
outward mastery while lack-
ing his earlier warmth and
intimacy; and Lanceray,
Bakst, and Golovin were
not in evidence at all. Of
Somoff's three canvases
his charming Dame et Arle-
quin, with an eighteenth-
century fete de mat in the .ii. *m
background, left the best "MlBMR'/'jBaiMiW^BPfjJ
all-round impression; in . ; >
his portrait of a Moscow • ••
society lady, on the other :. ,<^JKI\^HHh|11B^|
hand, interest was concen-
trated chiefly on the de-
lightfully painted toilette
and the masterly treatment BBI
of the hands. Other works jgH
in the domain of portraiture
which deserve mention are HBHflMKgl
the vivacious drawings by
N. Ulianoff of the painter
Bogaievski and the writer
Count Alexis Tolstoy, a
large portrait group by the * * dame et arlequin " vi k. somoff
talented caricaturist A. (" Mir'Isskoustva" Exhibition, Moscow)
160