Petrov-Vodkin K.S. Portrait of Anna Akhmatova

Petrov-Vodkin K.S.

1878, Khvalynsk (Saratov Province) - 1939, Leningrad

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova

1922

oil on canvas. 54,5 х 43,5
Ж-2407
Пост.: 1933 приобр. у автора с выставки «Художники РСФСР за XV лет»

Location in museum The Benois Wing Open the panorama of the hall in the virtual tour
Room 79
Period Late 19th century – Early 20th century
CategoryPortrait
Keywords 1918-1941 (soviet period) | Neoclassicism | Soviet Art | World of Art | female portrait | writers, poets | Anna Akhmatova and her Contemporaries | cultural figures | St. Petersburg – Petrograd – Leningrad
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- Saint-Petersburg. City and Citizens
- For the Glory of the Fatherland
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
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Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Gorenko) (1889–1966): Poetess, leading figure of the Silver Age.

Anna Akhmatova’s lines from I Am Not With Those Who Have Abandoned the Earth (1922) – “There is no people on earth more tearless, haughty and simpler than us” – would make an ideal epigraph to Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s image of the famous poetess. The artist indirectly addresses Orest Kiprensky’s Portrait of Alexander Pushkin. The muse materialising out of the “planetary” blue background behind Akhmatova’s shoulder is not the pipe-wielding girl who dictated the poetess’s early poems; she is now an austere woman with a proudly lowered head. Nothing is known about the circumstances surrounding the painting of the portrait or where the artist made the watercolour drawing from life that served as the modello.

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