266. Alexander Konstantinovich Bogomazov. Easel drawing Female portrait. 1916

Alexander Konstantinovich Bogomazov. Graphic Portrait of a woman. 1916 A sharp-nosed and pointed-eyed lady with a headscarf and a veil. Impulsive figure and nature with a cuboid head covered with a veil. With an obligatory attribute of beautiful femininity - a feather falling from the head and a handkerchief in a claw-shaped hand. Her frustrated determination does not bode well. But how good she is in anger! The zigzags in the lower right part of the work are a possible allusion to the touching beauty of corset lacing, which we notice in the lady of the diagonally descending street. However, in the depths of imagery, there is more of a warm feeling of impressionistic transience than of the coldness of avant-garde manifestation. In the lower right corner, the initials of the master and the date: AB, 1916. On the back, in blue pencil, is the signature of Bogmazov`s widow Wanda: I certify the work: V. Bogomazov. The inscription was made during the sale of works in 1979. Half cardboard, charcoal pencil. 66.5 x52.3 cm. In addition to the examinations of the All-Russian Artistic Research and Restoration Center named after Academician I.E. Grabar for 2007 and the State Scientific and Restoration Institute for Restoration in 2001, an act of art criticism examination by Dmitry Vladimirovich Sarabyanov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 2001 and Smolnikov`s own handwritten letter about the acquisition of six graphic works from the master`s family.