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I haven't been able to gather much information* on Somov's model: Boris Mikhailovich Snejkovsky was born 23 July 1910, in Odessa. His father was a ship captain with the Russian Volunteer Fleet. At the time of the Revolution, seven-year-old Boris and his mother traveled the entire breadth of the country - from Odessa to Vladivostok - to rejoin ...
Male portrait paintings by Konstantin Somov. Boris Snezhkovsky.
Boris Mikhailovich Snejkovsky was born 23 July 1910, in Odessa. His father was a ship captain with the Russian Volunteer Fleet. At the time of the Revolution, seven-year-old Boris and his mother traveled the entire breadth of the country - from Odessa to Vladivostok - to rejoin his father and his ship.
When Boris SNEJKOVSKY was born on 23 July 1910, in Odessa, Kherson, Russian Empire, his father, Michel Snejkovsky, was 34 and his mother, Adele Louise Kühner, was 24. He married Lioudmila FRONTSKIEVITCH on 20 July 1937, in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
A gift from the artist to Boris Snejkovsky (1910-1978). By descent to the present owner.
Konstantin Somov, “The Boxer”, Portrait of Mikhailovich Snejkovsky, 1933, Oil on Canvas, 54.8 x 46 cm, Private Collection
In about 1930, Somov met Boris Mikhailovich Snejkovsky (born 23 July 1910), "the twenty-year old young man who would inspire several of Somov's best later works. He would sit for straightforward portrait drawings, beautiful, mildly suggestive oil paintings, and he may have been the model for more erotic watercolors.
