Borisov-Musatov V. E. Self-Portrait with Sister

Borisov-Musatov V. E.

1870, Saratov - 1905, Tarusa

Self-Portrait with Sister

1898

oil and tempera on canvas. 143 x 177
Ж-2032
Received in 1909
Сведения о реставрации:
Реставратор:: Логдачёв В.Н.

Location in museum The Rossi Wing Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Room 46
Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords The Epoch of Nicolas II (1894-1917) | The Saratov School | Impressionism | female portrait | male portrait | family portrait | self-portrait | double portrait | Artists | male costume | hairstyles | female costume | gardens, parks | summer | day | Flowers | plants | Furniture
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- Diaghilev. Beginning
- For the Glory of the Fatherland
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Victor Borisov-Musatov’s works generally lack a developed subject. The master’s elegiac art is permeated with sorrowful reflections and notes of tranquillity. The artist deprives reality of concrete features, almost implying the existence of parallel worlds. In Self-Portrait with Sister, his sister is like the ghostly resident of an old, historical estate. The composition seems to have frozen in time, like a frame from a film reel, with the figures on the point of slipping away into the space beyond the clouds. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 231.

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