Girl in a red headscarf (Worker) 1925

Girl in a red headscarf (Worker) 1925

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Fektya 1915The artist's daughter 1923

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Gipsy girls 1926-1927 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Self-portrait 1918

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939) was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer. He was also an excellent semi-professional violinistEven during his college years, Petrov-Vodkin managed to enter into conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church, which discarded his work on a chapel in Samara and ultimately destroyed it as unacceptable. A number of his early works were deemed too erotic.His first well-known work was The Dream (1910), which sparked a discussion among contemporary Russian artists. The main defender of the painting was Alexandre Benois; his main detractor was Ilya Repin (hence, Petrov-Vodkin was discussed by two of the major Russian painters of the time). Other major works of that time include Boys at play, and, notably, Bathing of a Red Horse, (1912) his most iconic work - a symbol of the coming social change. During this stage in his artistic development, Petrov-Vodkin extensively used an aesthetic of Orthodox icon together with brighter colours and unusual compositions. His works were often deemed blasphemous and erotic

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Benevent's garden. Sahara 1907 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Kadusha. Africa1907

The Negro village 1907 State Russian Museum, St.

Petersburg

Interior 1920 Interior with stove 1919 Interior 1919

Head of an Uzbek boy 1921 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The Uzbek boy 1921 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Boys on the background of the city 1921

In the teahouse 1921

Shah-i-Zinda. Samarkand 1921 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Breakfast at the irrigation ditch 1921 Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine

Family portrait (self-portrait with wife and daughter)

1933

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Girl at the desk 1934

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Girl by the window

1928 State Russian

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Girl in the forest 1938 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Noon. Summer 1917 State Russian Museum, St.

Petersburg

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Head of boys 1918

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Girl

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Herring State Russian

Museum, St. Petersburg

Still life. Candle and carafe 1918 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Housewarming party 1937 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

In Shuvalov 1926 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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The daughter of a fisherman 1936 Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk

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