Studio: international art (63.1914/15)

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other Russian painters
whose works though enjoy-
ing great popularity at home
are almost wholly unknown
abroad. To this band be-
long, besides the artists
whose pictures are repro-
duced in the accompany-
ing illustrations, Konstantin
and Vladimir Makovsky,
N. I. Verkhotouroff, F. P.
Riznichenko, N. I.
Kravtchenko, A. Buchkuri,
J. Schmidt, N. V. Rozanoff,
N. M. Fokin, A. F.
Maximoff and numerous
others. Most of them
ought to be described as
out-and-out realists with a
penchant for depicting
scenes and incidents
characteristic of the

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haps, for this reason that

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OSCOW.—From time
to time there have ap-
peared in the pages of
The Studio accounts
of the doings of various Russian
painters of the modern school,
chiefly in connection with the
periodical exhibitions of such
societies as thei " Soyouz," as the
Union of Moscow Artists is called
for short, the " Mir Isskousstva"
(World of Art), the "Peredvishniki"
or Wanderers, and other groups;
and not long ago the Italian art
critic, Signor Pica, in an article on
three of its'Jeading representatives,
traced in an interesting manner
the development of the forces
which have been at work in estab-
lishing this modern school. But
while the names of such artists as
Michael Vroubel, Valentine Seroff,
Konstantin Somoff, Ilya Repine,
Vasnetsoff, Leo Bakst, Kustodieff
Bilibine, Igor Grabar, and a few
others have thus become familiar
to art lovers in the west of Europe
and elsewhere beyond the boun-

3 "a forgotten cemetery of the old believers,

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