454. Alexander Konstantinovich Bogomazov. Abstract Composition. 1916

Alexander Konstantinovich Bogomazov. Abstract Composition. 1916 It is possible that the landscape was the reason for the stylization: a house under a hipped roof, surrounded by a garden, where a feather hangs from the roof. In this case, the motif of a shady branch or rain streams rolling down on the window shutters. The volume of the house is well read at the heart of the composition. Around it, the crowns of garden trees form spheres, where they are spotted with apples, where with a vegetative chaos of bushes and herbs, where with a rain cloud, a tree trunk. Home comfort is created by paths near the house and branches hanging over the windows. In the lower right corner, the initials of the master and the date: AB, 1916. On the reverse in the lower left corner in pencil: Etr. 1080. Gray semi-cardboard, charcoal pencil. 66x52.2 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 for the same year, Smolnikov’s own handwritten letter about the acquisition of six graphic works from the master’s family is attached.