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The Boxer (1932/1933) - by Konstantin Somov (findagrave #31973060) 21½ x 18 1/8 in. (54.8 x 46 cm.) Auctioned at Christie's in 2011 for 713,250 GBP The subject of this painting is Boris Snezhkovsky, who frequently modelled for the artist. Somov (1869-1939) left Russia in 1923 to accompany the seminal exhibition of...
What is known is that the artist gifted a group of the drawings and paintings to the sitter, including a self -portrait that the young man had asked Somov to make for him. The images that seem certain to be portrayals of the artist's young muse were completed between 1930 and 1937. Portrait of Boris Snejkovsky, 1930.
Nov 19, 2019 · 19 November 2019. Boris Mikhailov’s Temptation of Death. by BJP. View Gallery 5 Photos. 2. A half-finished crematorium in Kyiv, Ukraine, inspired Boris Mikhailov’s latest project Temptation of Death. Construction began in 1969 but, 13 years on, as work neared completion, the crematorium was abandoned. Problems plagued the process.
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Oct 28, 2022 · Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Diary Through Jan. 15 at the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris; mep-fr.org. Jason Farago , critic at large for The Times, writes about art and culture in the ...
May 26, 2011 · Exhibition. May 26–Sep 5, 2011. Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, he has explored the position of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe, and the fallen ideals of the ...
Oct 13, 2022 · W hen Paris’s art curators met to discuss staging a major retrospective of Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov’s work, none could have guessed how prescient and tragic its eventual timing ...
