Petrov-Vodkin K.S. Mother

Petrov-Vodkin K.S.

1878, Khvalynsk (Saratov Province) - 1939, Leningrad

Mother

Вариант картины. 1915

oil on canvas. 107 x 98,5
ЖБ-1250
Received in 1936

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
CategoryGenre Painting, Portrait
Keywords The Epoch of Nicolas II (1894-1917) | World of Art | Neoclassicism | family portrait | female portrait | double portrait | children | Peasants | mother and a child | children's costume | headdress | female costume | Furniture | crockery
Virtual exhibitions and 3d-tours
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. On the 140th Anniversary of the Artist’s Birth
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was particularly interested in national roots, ideals and traditions in the mid-1910s, at the start of the First World War. Mother is based on a life motif, transformed by the master’s own personal vision. The outer appearance of the young peasant woman breast-feeding her baby grows into an image of the Madonna and Child, full of divine grace. The monumental figurative structure of the painting is intensified by the sonorous tones and dominant reds, the favourite colour of the Russian people. Russian Museum: From Icons to the Modern Times. Palace Editions, St Petersburg, 2015. P. 280.

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