IVAN POKHITONOV, 1894 - Laundresses / oil on panel, 17.3 × 21.2 cm
ИВАН ПОХИТОНОВ - Прачки
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Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Sources: goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=4946936
www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/magazine/archive/si/spec1
“A sorcerer is an artist” - that is what Ilya Repin called Ivan Pohitonov. Other artists, Polenov, Bogolyubov, Baksheev, also highly appreciated his painting. Pokhitonov was the pioneer of miniature painting - in this he had no equal.
To the 170th anniversary of the artist’s birthday, an exhibition has opened in the Tretyakov Gallery, which introduces in detail the work of Ivan Pokhitonov. Here are about a hundred works from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and Otar Margania. It is complemented by photographs and documents.
Ivan Pokhitonov began as a self-taught person. In Paris, he studied under the landscape painter A.P. Bogolyubov, studied painting of the Barbizonians, C. Corot, the impressionists. His landscapes can be called miniatures. He wrote on the tablets (preferred lemon or mahogany). He wrote with thin brushes and used a magnifying glass. At the end, the dried-up colorful surface was polished with a fish bone, achieving smoothness and brilliance. The colors of his landscapes shine even now, like enamel.
Pokhitonov’s originality, his dissimilarity to others was that he was able to combine the virtuoso technique of miniature painting with a lively, direct sense of nature, plein air searches. If C.-F. Daubigny and C. Monet sailed along the rivers of France in workshop boats, while Pokhitonov drove along the roads of France in a tailor-made workshop car with a high light specially made for him.
Ivan Pokhitonov is a man of the world. Born in Russia, studied in Paris, traveled throughout Europe and died in Belgium. Pavel Tretyakov noticed the artist when he was still young and acquired 25 miniatures from him. Everyone was surprised how Pokhitonov managed to paint paintings that were no more than fifteen to twenty centimeters.
Without a magnifying glass, you can hardly appreciate all the advantages of his paintings, see the details. Here in the picture "Laundresses" - two figures. Upon closer inspection, you may find that they are smiling and communicating with each other. It seems that you hear the hubbub of the voices of these laundries, which merge with the hubbub of nature.
In Paris, Pokhitonov became interested in porcelain painting. His plates are made in one copy. The artist painted each bottom like a picture. These plates are now very rare and very valuable. But they reflect a reminder of what applied art should be.
Pokhitonov's paintings in private collections are a rarity. They are in museums and the artist's family. The great-granddaughter of the artist Allegro Shapui-Markevich flew to the exhibition from Switzerland and presented paintings and photographs stored in their house. Allegro Shapyu-Markevich emphasized that “Pokhitonov lived in Belgium precisely because his sister and her husband, an anarchist, moved there because they could not live in Russia and they were very close.”
In the USSR, Pokhitonov was remembered in 1963, 40 years after his death. Then in the Tretyakov Gallery was the first personal exhibition of the master. The current exposition, the third in a row, makes it possible to rediscover the name of the artist-sorcerer.
IVAN POKHITONOV, 1894 - Laundresses / oil on panel, 17.3 × 21.2 cm
ИВАН ПОХИТОНОВ - Прачки
☆
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Sources: goskatalog.ru/portal/#/collections?id=4946936
www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/magazine/archive/si/spec1
“A sorcerer is an artist” - that is what Ilya Repin called Ivan Pohitonov. Other artists, Polenov, Bogolyubov, Baksheev, also highly appreciated his painting. Pokhitonov was the pioneer of miniature painting - in this he had no equal.
To the 170th anniversary of the artist’s birthday, an exhibition has opened in the Tretyakov Gallery, which introduces in detail the work of Ivan Pokhitonov. Here are about a hundred works from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery and Otar Margania. It is complemented by photographs and documents.
Ivan Pokhitonov began as a self-taught person. In Paris, he studied under the landscape painter A.P. Bogolyubov, studied painting of the Barbizonians, C. Corot, the impressionists. His landscapes can be called miniatures. He wrote on the tablets (preferred lemon or mahogany). He wrote with thin brushes and used a magnifying glass. At the end, the dried-up colorful surface was polished with a fish bone, achieving smoothness and brilliance. The colors of his landscapes shine even now, like enamel.
Pokhitonov’s originality, his dissimilarity to others was that he was able to combine the virtuoso technique of miniature painting with a lively, direct sense of nature, plein air searches. If C.-F. Daubigny and C. Monet sailed along the rivers of France in workshop boats, while Pokhitonov drove along the roads of France in a tailor-made workshop car with a high light specially made for him.
Ivan Pokhitonov is a man of the world. Born in Russia, studied in Paris, traveled throughout Europe and died in Belgium. Pavel Tretyakov noticed the artist when he was still young and acquired 25 miniatures from him. Everyone was surprised how Pokhitonov managed to paint paintings that were no more than fifteen to twenty centimeters.
Without a magnifying glass, you can hardly appreciate all the advantages of his paintings, see the details. Here in the picture "Laundresses" - two figures. Upon closer inspection, you may find that they are smiling and communicating with each other. It seems that you hear the hubbub of the voices of these laundries, which merge with the hubbub of nature.
In Paris, Pokhitonov became interested in porcelain painting. His plates are made in one copy. The artist painted each bottom like a picture. These plates are now very rare and very valuable. But they reflect a reminder of what applied art should be.
Pokhitonov's paintings in private collections are a rarity. They are in museums and the artist's family. The great-granddaughter of the artist Allegro Shapui-Markevich flew to the exhibition from Switzerland and presented paintings and photographs stored in their house. Allegro Shapyu-Markevich emphasized that “Pokhitonov lived in Belgium precisely because his sister and her husband, an anarchist, moved there because they could not live in Russia and they were very close.”
In the USSR, Pokhitonov was remembered in 1963, 40 years after his death. Then in the Tretyakov Gallery was the first personal exhibition of the master. The current exposition, the third in a row, makes it possible to rediscover the name of the artist-sorcerer.