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He committed suicide 24 February 1978 at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried in the Russian cemetery at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois where many émigrés - including Somov - are buried. Snejkovsky and his mother, Odessa, circa 1912. Snejkovsky and Somov, the latter working on the 1936 profile portrait seen above.
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...
Nov 19, 2019 · Boris Mikhailov’s Temptation of Death. 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.
Oct 13, 2022 · Mikhailov’s blue-tinted series of 111 pictures taken in newly independent Ukraine’s second largest city after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, titled At Dusk, are bleak.
Male portrait paintings by Konstantin Somov. Boris Snezhkovsky.
May 26, 2011 · Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also incorporates profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging, and death. This exhibition is the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal Case History series (1997–98) in an American museum.
Oct 28, 2022 · The “Case History” pictures have compelled, disturbed and enraged viewers for two decades now, with a corpus of academic literature now trailing behind them.
