Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Russian, b. 1993
Ksenya Istomina, a born painter.
“From my second year,” says Ksenya Istomina, “my mother gave me a new sketchbook every day, I always drew such a sketchbook full and then another empty notebook was ready. In kindergarten I drew whole stories together with my girlfriend that we made up together. Now this girlfriend is my favorite model and you can see her in several of my paintings. At primary school, my parents were advised to let me go to art school. I started doing that at the age of 10 and I graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts at the age of 27”.
Studying at this famous Academy has brought a lot to the now 29-year-old Istomina, she sees not only the lessons but also the cooperation with her fellow students and teachers as special and valuable. An academic study where everything is drawn and painted completely 'from life'. The building itself also has a long history in the art world. Not everything has been restored and partly because of this, that history is clearly visible in a fascinating way. Her fascination for this environment can also be seen in some of the paintings Ksenya Istomina made for her solo exhibition at Galerie Bonnard.
Your own style
Studying at the academy meant hard work. For six years, the young artist usually painted and drew 7 days a week, 7-12 hours a day. This has resulted in enormous experience, knowledge and mastery of the craft. With her soft, dreamy personality she puts her own character into the work. This own style did not come to her mind. Developing your own style was not easy. During the hours of drawing and painting sessions and the intensive collaboration and work discussions with her fellow students, the hours of copying the old masters in the museums in various styles, she discovered her style and found the subjects that appeal to her.
There is not a single style of a particular artist that is preferred by the artist. That she has an enormous knowledge of the history of art is apparent from the series of names she mentions when we ask her this question. Some of the names she mentions are: Johannes Vermeer, Claude Monet, Jules Bastien Lepage, John Everett Millet, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Levitan, John Singer Sargent, George Clausen, Henri Fantin-Latour and Arkhip Kuindzhi.
Studying and discussing with others what she likes and would like to show in her work is not over after her academic period. One of her fellow students became her partner and she discusses what she is going to paint with him, they view and judge each other's work and are each other's main critics. Istomina says that this support ensures that they both constantly learn quality and creativity.(Biography provided by Galerie Bonnard)
to
11
5
6
5
4
2
1
1
4
5
Overall Height
to
Overall Width
to
11
9
7
3
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
11
12
431
221
203
113
11
11
8
4
4
Artist: Ksenya Istomina
Sweet dreams in the Moonlight -21st century interior painting with figures
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Sweet Dreams in the Moonlight'
100 x 80 cm
Oil on linen
Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Watching her Sketchbook -21st century interior and portrait painting of a girl
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Watching her sketchbook''
75 x 75 cm
Oil on linen
Painted after life, the artist always works with a real scenery. Her realistic but impressionistic paintings look...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Girl with a flower-21st century painting of a girl in black dress & white flower
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Girl with flower'
100 x 60 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is:
Oil on linen, framed
Painted after life, the artist ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Midday nap- 21st century painting of a girl in a red dress on a blue sofa
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
'Midday Nap'
60 x 80 cm ( Frame is included in price, size framed in a black frame form the pictures is:
Oil on linen, framed
Painted after life, the artist always ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Madonna with Child - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Madonna with Child
90 x 70 cm
Oil on canvas
Framing is possible
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still-life with Skull, 21st Century Contemporary Classical Still-life Painting
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Still-life with skull
50 x 80 cm
Oil on wood panel
Framed (included 62 x 92 cm
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her sta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Bright Expectations - 21st Century figurative Painting of a young pregnant woman
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Bright Expectations
100 x 95 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting is not framed, if you wish to have it framed, we will be happy to advice you on this.
This portrait painti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goodmorning! - 21st Century figurative Interior Painting of a Girl in her Room
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Interior - portrait painting by Russian artist Ksenya Istomina is made in 2020 during the Lockdown in Russia. The artist couldn't leave her apartment, only for a little shopping...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mountain View - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Painting
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Mountain View
70 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
Framed 80 x 90 cm
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well known a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rosehip-21st Century Still-life Painting of a Glass Bowl with Pink Rosehips
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Rosehip
20 x 20 cm
(Framed 32 x 32 cm)
Oil on cardboard
This Still-life painting by Russian artist Ksenya Istomina is made in 2020 during the Lockdown in Russia. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Still-Life in Studio - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Still-life in Studio
85 x 100 cm
(framed in a black wooden frame 95 x 110 cm)
Oil on canvas
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Related Items
No Pasaran - Lone Soldier Symbolizing the Human Desire for Equality and Freedom
By William Blake (b. 1991)
Located in Chicago, IL
Hugh Goffinet stares out from the canvas in the dress of a soldier, without being one. He is a reenactor of an African American volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. His inspiration is the Lincolns—the battalion’s volunteers—but they are pictured only symbolically, in his dress. Their inspiration was Lincoln, who many decades earlier helped give meaning to the American Civil War, but who is invisible in the painting except by implication—the pose of Hugh Goffinet—which carefully emulates Lincoln’s pose in the celebrated presidential portrait by George Healy. Entirely hidden, at the deepest layer of history, is the true source of inspiration: the human desire for equality and freedom. To understand, honor, and preserve it requires remembrance, in this case with history animating reenactors who animate art that animates memory.
"No Pasaran" - an expression of determination to defend a position against an enemy - channels the spirit of Winslow Homer's war imagery, bringing it into the contemporary world, asking us to reflect upon the decisions forced to be made in wartime, some of which will never leave us. As for the paintings, William uses materials and methods of the Civil War era. The linen on which he paints was in use at that time as well as the tubed oil paints. He is one of the few artists who tacks his canvas to the stretchers using similar tacks that would have been used by Winslow Homer. While he leaves the works unframed for this reason, the artwork could certainly be framed. This piece is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
William Blake
No Pasaran
oil on linen
48h x 30w in
121.92h x 76.20w cm
WIL047
Known for his highly charged depictions of Civil War reenactments, William Blake’s powerful paintings show the recursive bodies of reenactors as they gesture across time. Participating in over 40 reenactment events, Blake currently interprets as the artist-correspondent Winslow Homer at these battle reenactments. He immerses himself in the materiality of his own obsession by constructing period clothes, camping on battlefields, and documenting the reenactment similar to Homer’s documentation of the authentic war.
The figures in the paintings reverberate the past with respect and with a desire to educate, humble, and play. With each annual iteration of American Civil War reenactments, the reanimation of the past encourages a review of history and aids in its continuous revision.
For his second exhibition with Gallery Victor Armendariz, William Blake presents A Great Battlefield, a collection of new paintings depicting US Marines at the Gettysburg National Military Park. A Great Battlefield, takes its title from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which poetically looks to the battlefield as a site of rebirth. Following the tradition of nineteenth-century American history painting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"6 Oysters" oil painting of white oysters on blue background with resin finish
By Anne Harney
Located in Edgartown, MA
“Spending a lifetime of summers on Martha's Vineyard my work has evolved into natural forms of coastal scenes. My connection to the island developed a deep concern with natural forms...
Category
2010s Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Resin, Oil, Wood Panel
Figurative, Floral_Acrylic/Linen_Women Walk + Throw Flowers_America Martin
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Women Walk and Throw Flowers"
Acrylic on Linen
53.5 x 109.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspir...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
"Little Honey Bear" Oil Painting Honey Jar
By Calvin Lai
Located in Denver, CO
Calvin Lai's (US based) "Little Honey Bear" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of bear shaped honey container with a patte...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Still Life with Lemons, Cruet and Teaspoon - Oil Paint by Marco Fariello - 2020
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with lemons, cruet and teaspoon is one of the best works by the artist Marco Fariello. It is made on wood panel, painted in oil in 2021.
The subject of the work is the re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
H 11.82 in W 15.75 in D 0.04 in
Peonies in White Light - Oil Painting with 12K White Gold Leaf, Blond Female
By Michael Van Zeyl
Located in Chicago, IL
The blond figure, along with the floating peonies, combine to explore the dynamic between the eternal and the temporal, as well as our own relationship with nature. The gold leaf adds a three-dimensional softness as well as a glow upon which the female figure floats. Her skin is seductively painted; her teal dress falls off her shoulder; white peonies float by; the scene is set for a dreamy visual feast. The painting is framed in a gilt frame.
Michael Van Zeyl
Peonies in White Light
oil and 12K gold leaf on linen wrapped panel
24h x 36w in
60.96h x 91.44w cm
EDUCATION
1987-1990 American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL
1999-2000 American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL - Life Drawing & Oil Painting
Palette & Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL - Painting & Life Drawing
Art Students League, New York, NY - Painting
EXHIBITIONS
2017 “Anne Harris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Musician_Figurative, Portrait, Bright Colors_Oil+Acrylic/Linen_America Martin
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Musician"
Oil & Acrylic on Linen
53.75" x 47.5" Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration from her C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
"Feelers" - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Chelsea Gibson
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Feelers" - Contemporary figurative oil painting of a man's torso by Chelsea Gibson
Medium: Oil on linen
Size 25 x 20 inches. Offered unframed.
"Feelers" is part of Chelsea Gib...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Man on the Island w/ White Linen Towel_America Martin_Oil/Acrylic_Figurative
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Man on the Island with White Linen Towel"
Acrylic on Pink Linen
88.5 x 52.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and cou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
Justin (from Skype portraits series)
By Sandro Kopp
Located in New York, NY
Justin (from Skype portraits series)
9.5 x 12 inches
oil on canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Woman and Water Lilies_America Martin_Acrylic/Linen_Female Figurative_Floral
By America Martin
Located in 326 N Coast Hwy. | Laguna Beach, CA
America Martin
"Woman and Water Lilies"
Acrylic on Linen
53.5 x 96.5 in. Framed
Exploring the identity of both her namesake and country, LA-based America Martin draws inspiration f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Out Far and in Deep - large, emotive, abstract figurative, oil, acrylic, canvas
By Fiona Ackerman
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This haunting abstract portrait of several figures in muted earthy colours is by Fiona Ackerman. Under a gray-blue sky, a central figure, an older man stands on the earth as fragment...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Oil
Previously Available Items
Waiting-21st Century Contemporary Painting of young man sitting in window light
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Man sitting near open windows
100 x 100 cm
Oil on canvas
Framing is possible
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well known all over the world and followed by thousands of artists, students and art lovers on Instagram because of her beautiful style, technique, brushstrokes, form, use of color, etc. .
Her first exhibition was in May 2020 in our Gallery, a huge succes with sales to altlovers and collectors all over the world. Now, June and July 2022 we organize a solo-exhibition with 30 paintings of this marvelous and talented artist. Over two years she prepared for this show.
We as Galerie Bonnard...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ksenya IstominaWaiting-21st Century Contemporary Painting of young man sitting in window light, 2021
Free Shipping
H 39.38 in W 39.38 in D 1.97 in
Pink Roses-21st Century Still-life Painting of a Blue Bowl with Pink Roses
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Pink Roses
50 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
(Framed in a black wooden frame it measures 56 x 46 cm)
This Still-life painting by Russian artist Ksenya Istomina is made in 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Free Shipping
H 19.69 in W 15.75 in D 1.19 in
Red Bilberries - 21st Century figurative Painting of a Girl eating bilberries
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Eating Red Billberries
70 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting is not framed, if you wish to have it framed, we will be happy to advice you on this.
This portrait pain...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 27.56 in W 31.5 in D 1.19 in
Reflection- 21st Century Contemporary Interior Oil Painting with Figure
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Reflection
100 x 80 cm
Oil on canvas
Framing is possible
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well known a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 39.38 in W 31.5 in D 1.97 in
Distance - 21st Century Contemporary Interior Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Distance
120 x 85 cm
Oil on canvas
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well known all over the world and f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 47.25 in W 33.47 in D 1.97 in
Musing - 21st Century Contemporary Interior Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Musing
120 x 105 cm
Oil on canvas
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'.
Since her start she is well known all over the world and fo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 47.25 in W 41.34 in D 1.97 in
Night street- 21st Century Still-life Painting of a road with trees in the dark.
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
Night Street
30 x 25 cm
(Framed 42 x 37 cm)
Oil on canvas
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg'. Since her start she ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 11.82 in W 9.85 in D 1.19 in
White Rosehip- 21st Century Still-life Painting of a Darkblue Bowl with Rosehip
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya Istomina
White Rosehips
30 x 30 cm
(Framed 42 x 42 cm)
Oil on canvas
This Still-life painting by Russian artist Ksenya Istomina is made in 2020 during the Lockdown in Russia....
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ksenya IstominaWhite Rosehip- 21st Century Still-life Painting of a Darkblue Bowl with Rosehip, 2020
Free Shipping
H 11.82 in W 11.82 in D 1.19 in
Renaissance Lady- 21st Century Portrait Painting of a Reading Woman
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ksenya IstominaRenaissance Lady
50 x 40 cm
Framed 72 x 62 cm ( Frame is included)
Oil on wooden panel
2020
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in St P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 19.69 in W 15.75 in D 1.19 in
Lemons- 21st Century Contemporary Russian Still-life Painting in yellow & whites
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This Still-life painting by Ksenya Istomina.
Lemons
60 x 50 cm
Oil on canvas
Framed in a black wooden frame
Ksenya Istomina graduated in 2018 at the 'Imperial Academy of Arts in S...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 23.63 in W 19.69 in D 1.19 in
Sunny Day - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
On the 26th of april we are proud to launch a young and beautiful artist from Russia in our gallery. We meet her in St Petersburg in 2018. We were there when she graduated at the fam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Shipping
H 19.69 in W 15.75 in
Portrait in Red - 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting by Ksenya Istomina
By Ksenya Istomina
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
On the 26th of april we are proud to launch a young and beautiful artist from Russia in our gallery. We meet her in St Petersburg in 2018. We were there when she graduated at the fam...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ksenya Istomina Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Free Shipping
H 15.75 in W 23.63 in
Ksenya Istomina figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Ksenya Istomina figurative paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of figurative paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Ksenya Istomina in oil paint, paint, fabric and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Ksenya Istomina figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Elena Zolotnitsky, Evgeniya Buravleva, and Jennifer Hornyak. Ksenya Istomina figurative paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,534 and tops out at $12,871, while the average work can sell for $9,542.