Painting in Russia

Main article: Culture of Russia

Museums

• State Hermitage Museum
• Russian Museum
• Tretyakov Gallery

Showrooms

• RuArts

Art market

2024: Market forms around fairs in Moscow and other major cities

In 2024, the art market in Russia is based on fairs in Moscow and other major cities of the country.

In Moscow, the leader is Cosmoscow. As for newcomers, the first Siberian fair of contemporary art Scan Fair was held in Krasnoyarsk in the summer of 2024. According to the results of the VIP show alone, 30 works were sold for a total amount of 1.1 million rubles with an average price range of 5,000 to 500,000 rubles. The revenue of the second Nizhny Novgorod Kontur fair, held in May, amounted to more than 40 million rubles (about 400 works were found by their new owners). In June, the third St. Petersburg fair "1703" was visited by a record number of guests - 20,000 people. More than 400 works were sold there with a total value of 78 million rubles.

2023

Alexey Korabelnikov. "Shadows of Love," 2023

2010

Igor Kravtsov. Last salute. 2010

Artists of the 2000s

• Mikhail Shvartsman,
• Vladimir Nemukhin,
• Vladimir Yakovlev,
• Igor Vulokh,
• Dmitry Krasnopevtsev,
• Timur Novikov,
• Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe,
• Francisco Infante,
• Igor Makarevich,
• Oleg Maslov,
• Olga Tobreluts,
• Leonid Purygin,
• Sergey Anufriev,
• Sergei Borisov,
• Oleg Tselkov,
• Sergey Shablavin,
• Nikolay Polissky,
• Evgeny Antufiev,
• Aidan Salakhova,
• Dmitry Tsvetkov,
• Alexander Zakharov,
• Vitaly Pushnitsky,
• Vita Bouivid,
• Andrey Bartenev,
• Irina Korina,
• Sergey Kishchenko,
• Timothy Radya,
• Misha Most,
• Aleksei Luka,
• Dmitry Aske.

• Velichko Vladimir Nikolaevich (b. 1956), watercolorist, Nizhny Novgorod.

1973

Yuri Mikhailovich Neznetsev. It's exam time. 1973

1971

Tractor driver's family, 1971 Mikhail Ivanovich Likhachev (1919-1997), Russian artist. Oil on canvas. Private collection

1967

Victor Bednov. "The Whitewashing of Canvases." 1967 g

1956

Kotlyarov Lev Serafimovich. Nurses. Rest after duty. 1956

Dmitry Ivanovich Puskin. Alyonushka. 1956

1953

Sergey Tutunov. "In the Morning," 1953

1946

Lyubimov Alexander Mikhailovich. Salute of victory in Leningrad, 1945. 1946 g

1944

Yuri Pimenov. Front road. 1944

1935

Georgy Grigorievich Nissky. Sevastopol. 1935

1934

• Mikhail Ksenofontovich Sokolov - Russian graphic artist.

1929

Vasily Kandinsky "The Sun," 1929.

1928

Анзимирова Нина Владимировна Рисунок. Портрет Н.М.Новлянского в роли Тихона. "Гроза" Островского. Moscow, State Chamber Theater. 1928 Bakhrushinsky Museum

1924

Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova (1884-1967). "Ballet latrine," 1924 (?)

Kazimir Malevich in his works at the Museum of Artistic Culture. Petrograd, 1924

Анзимирова Нина Владимировна. Рисунок. Портрет А.Г.Коонен в роли Катерины. "Гроза". Moscow, State Chamber Theater. Bakhrushinsky Museum

1923

Leon Bakst. Sketches of costumes for the tragedy of Fedra, 1923. Bakhrushinsky Museum

1920

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. "Baker," 1920

1919

Zamirailo V.D. Sketch illustration - Demon M.Yu. Lermontov, 1919 Bakhrushinsky Museum

Zamirailo V.D. Sketch illustration - Demon M.Yu. Lermontov, 1919 Bakhrushinsky Museum

1918

Autumn. Stanislav Zhukovsky. 1918. Novosibirsk Art Museum

1917

Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky. "Drawing Room with Grand Piano," 1917

1916

Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev. Easter rite (Christ-bearing). 1916

Sudeikin S.Yu. Sketch of a panel for the room of literary and arrhytistic cabaret Prival comedians, St. Petersburg, 1916 Bakhrushinsky Museum

Germashev Mikhail Markianovich. "Doctor at the Station," 1910s

1915

Isaac Izrailevich Brodsky, "Fallen Leaves," 1915

1914

Sudeikin S.Yu. Curtain sketch for the Puppet Theater, 1914 Bakhrushinsky Museum

1911

1910: Vanguard

In a 1910 article, Benoit first formulated the concept of "avant-garde," dividing all Russian art into avant-garde, center and rearguard. He ranked himself and the Miriskusniks in the center; the rearguard is the Union of Russian Artists, the Moscow School, Korovin and so on. But the avant-garde is young people: Mikhail Larionov, Georgy Yakulov, Pavel Kuznetsov^[1].

• Larionov Mikhail Fedorovich (1881-1964), Tiraspol, Moscow, Paris.

Artists Mikhail Matyushin (left), Kazimir Malevich (right) and poet Alexei Kruchenykh

​​​​​​​Fedorovsky F.F. (Composer - Rimsky-Korsakov N.A., director P.S. Olenin, conductor Palitsyn I.O.). Sketch of costumes. Boyare berend

Moscow, Opera S.I. Zimina. Premiere October 18, 1910 Bakhrushinsky Museum]]

1907

Ernest Ernestovich Lissner (1874-1941). "Trinity-Sergius Lavra." Paper, watercolor. (1907)

1904

D.I. Mendeleev plays chess with the artist A.I. Kuindzhi in the presence of A.I. Mendeleeva, the scientist's wife. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1904.

1901

Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich from childhood was fond of history and archeology, participated in excavations of ancient mounds. Later, as an adult, he continued his scientific activities, which largely determined the theme of his works.

According to the artist, the historical picture should, as it were, carry the viewer in the past era, recreate the very spirit of the past times. Roerich was carried away not by the psychology of individual historical characters, not by the sharpness of a specific event, but by the era itself in its typical manifestations.

Nicholas Roerich. Overseas guests, 1901 Tretyakov Gallery

At an exhibition at the Academy of Arts in 1902, the painting was acquired by Nicholas II for the Tsarskoye Selo Palace.

1899

Makovsky Vladimir Egorovich. Arrival at the dacha. 1899

Isaac Levitan. "Huts. After Sunset, "1899

1891

Isaac Ilyich Levitan. Summer. 1891

1897: Alexander Golovin in Spain

The Spanish theme was one of the leading in the work of Alexander Golovin. He traveled extensively around the country, studying its nature, architecture and culture. Golovin designed many productions on the Spanish theme - both in musical and drama theater. The scenography for the opera "Carmen" (a 1908 production, the Imperial Mariinsky Theater) earned special attention from the public for its unusually harmonious combination of scenery and costumes with music and plot. For more details see Mariinsky Theatre.

The artist's letters addressed to his wife Maria Golovina (Kotova) deserve special attention. In them, he describes the battle of the bulls depicted on a postcard, the ancient gate and the Lion's Yard in Alhambra.

Golovin A.Ya. Open letter to his wife M.K. Golovina (Kotova) depicting the entrance to the Alhambra Hall in Spain, 1897 Bakhrushinsky Museum

These texts were created while traveling in Spain. The artist visited Madrid, Toledo, Barcelona, ​ ​ but was especially fond of Grenada, where he worked a lot in Alhambra, copying the paintings of the famous palace. The manuscripts entered the funds of the Bakhrushinsky Museum after his death, in the 1930s and 1960s.

Vrubel MA Costume sketch. Varangian. Sadko, 1897 Bakhrushinsky Museum

Realists

• Bessonov Boris Vasilievich (1862-1934) - Russian artist, landscape painter.
• Repin Ilya Efimovich (1844-1930), Chuguev, Petersburg, Moscow, Kuokkale.
• Vereshchagin Vasily Vasilievich (1842-1904), Cherepovets, Petersburg, Munich, Paris, Moscow.

1888

Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin. At the tea table. 1888

Levitan Isaac Ilyich. First greens. May. 1888

Vladimir Makovsky. A prayer service for Easter. 1888

1886

Andrei Nikolaevich Shilder. In the park. 1886

Joseph Krachkovsky "At the Well," 1886.

1883

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy. Unknown. 1883

"Lunar Night on the Dnieper" (1880) is one of the most famous paintings by Arkhip Kuindzhi. This work made a real splash. Many viewers did not believe that the light of the moon could be so transmitted in colors alone, and looked behind the canvas, in the hope of seeing a lamp there illuminating the canvas at the back.

Artists K.A. Savitsky and I.I. Shishkin. Early 1880s.

1879

Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy, In the country. 1879

1878

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov. Moscow courtyard. 1878

1873

Kuindzhi Arkhip Ivanovich. Ladoga Lake 1,873

1870: The Wanderers

1866

View from Livadia Park on Yalta, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1866

Grigory Grigoryevich Myasoyedov. Someone else's happiness (Two fates). 1865

Vasily Perov. Rural procession on Easter. 1861

Ivan Aivazovsky "Peter I at Krasnaya Gorka, lighting a fire on the shore to signal dying ships" (1846)

Vasily Tropinin. Lace maker. 1823. Tretyakov Gallery