Evgeniy Monahov
Russian, b. 1974
Evgeniy Monahov was born in 1974 in Moscow, in the family of a naval officer and engineer, none of his relatives or ancestors had any contact with art. Nevertheless, at a fairly early age, he began to show interest in art. Evgeniy Monahov graduated from the Moscow Academic Art College in 1996 and the Surikov Art Institute in 2002.
In 2003, International Artist Magazine published an article about him which attracted the attention of several galleries from around the world. In 2004 he received an offer to take part in a large cultural event entitled "Russian Summer in Santa Fe" at Andreeva Gallery, which was accompanied by numerous publications of his paintings and interviews in the local press. In 2005 he opened with his first solo show "Scenes of the Southwest" in this same gallery. In parallel, he began to cooperate with the French gallery "Galleries Bartoux", exhibiting from the Champs Elysees in Paris to New York.
In 2012, a large interview with him was published by the Russian magazine "Eclectic" and he held two large solo exhibitions in the Moscow gallery G8 - "Playing with Light" in 2012 and "Pieces of Life" in 2013. Also notable was the repeated participation in the exhibitions "ModPortrait" in the museums in Zaragoza and Barcelona in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021, exhibitions "Figurativas" in the museum MEAM in Barcelona in 2019, 2021 and 2023 and the exhibition "Spark" in China in 2018.
In 2021 his work “Girl with a Gun” won the Bouguereau Award and a Purchase Award in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition. In addition, “Girl with a Gun”, was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander to the Moon, to be preserved for posterity. His painting of “Pasion for Color” won Best Nude in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition and his work of “Windmills of Your Mind” won a Dual category award and an ARC Purchase Award as well.
In July 2021 at hosted by Sotheby's auction Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works his painting "Passion for Color" was sold for $38,000, more than doubling the maximum estimated price.
Evgeniy Monahov has become recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master, (ARCLM).
His paintings are found in private and corporative collections around the globe, including: USA, the European Union, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates among many, many others.(Biography provided by Art Voyage Gallery)
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Morning stretches
Located in Zofingen, AG
A quick live sketch is always a little imperfect - too little time and too much adrenaline in the blood at this moment, but it perfectly conveys the delight of beauty and, as the Fre...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Katya
Located in Zofingen, AG
This is one of those sketches where Evgeniy Monahov first used an industrial marker together with tempera - the thick velvety black of his lines expands the tonal range of the delica...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Permanent Marker, Tempera, Paper
Sun reflex before Sunset
Located in Zofingen, AG
The last live sketch with industrial marker and tempera at the very end of a beautiful day, when the setting sun painted everything in the studio gold.
Sheet from Monahov's studio a...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Tempera, Paper, Permanent Marker
Morning coffee with Julia
Located in Zofingen, AG
At one time Evgeniy Monahov made a whole series of morning portraits-etudes, catching this wonderful slightly sleepy mood, cold morning light, tousled hair and extremely natural look...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
Sleepyhead
Located in Zofingen, AG
While working with a model in the studio, it often happens that models get tired and fall asleep - such moments are beautiful in their naturalness and often become the impetus for cr...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Upset Spynx
Located in Zofingen, AG
At first, Polina lay in the proud classic pose of the Sphinx, supported on her hands, with her back strongly arched and her head held high. But then the conversation turned to sad to...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Dream of flying dandelions
Located in Zofingen, AG
This live sketch was made on the same day as the first sketch for the painting “Passion for Color”, which later became famous. The posing session was difficult, Polina was tired and ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Tempera, Paper, Permanent Marker
Sir Dominic Sewell at the St. George's Jousting Tournament in Moscow in 2019
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the summer of 2019, Evgeniy Monahov was lucky to make a series of live sketches during the of St. George's Jousting Tournament in Moscow - for several days everyone had the opport...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Girl with the Chimera Tattoo
Located in Zofingen, AG
Another wonderful example from a series of morning portraits by Evgeniy Monahov, where subtle realistic detailing of the face is accompanied by a colorful and impressionistically pai...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
Scream of an Angel
Located in Zofingen, AG
A sketch for a future big painting that Angelina and Evgeniy will make someday - then they will decide what will be more in her beautiful dark eyes - surprise, fright, pleasure.. or ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Two girls reading a book
Located in Zofingen, AG
Just another evening in the artist's studio, when the guests arrived and sat down to look at all kinds of art books. Two girls were so carried away by the book that they no longer no...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Tempera, Permanent Marker
Do butterflies live in winter? (sketch for the painting of the same name)
Located in Zofingen, AG
A quick spontaneous live sketch started on the windowsill of a house on Patriarch's Ponds turned into a sketch for a future large painting of the same name. An additional strip of pa...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
No, I'll not give you my password!
Located in Zofingen, AG
Usually viewers try to look over the shoulder to see what the artist is painting, but here Evgeniy Monahov, in a quick sketch portrait, seems to be looking over the shoulder of his m...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Black Rainbow
Located in Zofingen, AG
On one hot June day, a beautiful Ethiopian girl was playing in Monahov's studio with a sparkling glass prism, watching objects refracted in the room and outside the window.. and at s...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Wood Panel, Tempera
Lazy Saturday
Located in Zofingen, AG
Continuing a series of small paintings in oil and tempera on wooden boards, artist turned to the image found in the live sketches at one of the beautiful Saturday mornings.
So once ...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Wood Panel
I wish I was in Carrickfergus
Located in Zofingen, AG
Evgeniy loves to listen to the great Jim McCann during the painting sessions and one of the Irish folk songs performed by him, very suitable in terms of lyrics and mood, gave the tit...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Tempera, Wood Panel, Oil
The dreamer
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once upon a time there was one tough girl. She did a lot of mistakes in her life and survived a lot of falls, including falls on the asphalt from her motorcycles and many times she balanced on the edge of life. But she didn't lost her good temper and ability to dream.
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
Playing with the cruciferous flower
Located in Zofingen, AG
Some time ago Evgeniy Monahov chatted with a good friend about which of the Hermitage Leonardos he like best - the Benois Madonna or the Litta Madonna....
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Tempera, Wood Panel, Oil
Young wolves
Located in Zofingen, AG
Ken: Purgatory... what's that?
Ray: Purgatory's kind of like the in-betweeny one. You weren't really shit, but you weren't all that great either. Like Tottenham.
[pause]
Ray: Do you believe in all that stuff, Ken?
Ken: About Tottenham?
About three years ago, during a trip to Spain, Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
No Regrets
Located in Zofingen, AG
She is cool, independent, determined, always ready for changes, having everything she need in her backpack. She stops only for a second to light a cigarette and turns around. Not reg...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
The boxer girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
"..yesterday I got into a fight with a man who started beating his eighth-grade son for a deuce in mathematics. A pair of bruises on my face, my hands were damaged, but I won, 5 year...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
Upside down
Located in Zofingen, AG
One of the easiest ways to see the picture with a fresh look, when you doubt in something - turn it upside down. If there are errors, they will immediately become noticeable.
But if...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
The man
Located in Zofingen, AG
A real man needs a little - ironed shirt, good bourbon and silence. And then he will be able to do much more - he will survive new love affairs, fights and adventures, fall from the received blows and get up to move on, to write new books or to paint pictures.
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
I always wanted to be a meek girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
-- I always wanted to be a meek girl, - Polina said thoughtfully and threw her hands in boxing gloves on her knees. A pause, just a scratch of the marker on paper. Artist wait the co...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
Music in my head. Dancing
Located in Zofingen, AG
During the exhibition in Spain artist was asked:
-- How did she pose for you, did she danced all the way?
-- Of course, the sun was shining, the fire was blazing and the beautiful red-haired beauty was spinning unceasingly in the dance in a dark red dress. It's usual for artist's life, almost routine. And who does not believe, let try to pose!
This painting was the last on the theme "Music in my mind", once completed, it was shown in 2016 at Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
Morning
Located in Zofingen, AG
Do you remember how in the "Legend of the pianist" a pianist (played by Tim Roth) improvised for the record a simple beautiful melody, looking at the young girl in the porthole?
So once upon a time, going to his studio past Tverskaya, where some kind of riots starts to begin, Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Canvas, Oil
Lonely go-go dancer
Located in Zofingen, AG
Experimental work done live on a thick red paper with industrial marker and tempera. Inspired by the eponymous song by Mark Almond:
"Lonely go-go dancer
Dancing in crazy foam
Surrounded by your acolytes
But going home alone
When did you last see
A sun-drenched afternoon
When did the morning light
Last invade your room?"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Tempera, Paper
Daenerys morning
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once upon a time, a wonderful girl posed for Evgeniy, outwardly very similar to the well-known blonde from Game of Thrones. Almost a doppelganger of her fairy-tale sister .. And then...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Wood Panel, Tempera, Oil
Fly Me to the Moon
Located in Zofingen, AG
There are models of such amazing beauty that all dramatic ideas are postponed for a while and the artist simply begins to glorify joie de vivre, the joy of life. This theme was born ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Wood Panel, Oil
Two on the road, Muli-Tibet County, China (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Permanent Marker, Tempera, Paper
Little street of Eya Village (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Permanent Marker, Tempera, Paper
Passion for freedom
Located in Zofingen, AG
Evgeniy Monahov still like to work on the edge between sketch and finished painting - when artist are not playing by the rules of one particular style,...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
The Fog
Located in Zofingen, AG
Some time ago Evgeniy bet with his good friend that he could paint a painting where about half of it would be pure white primer but painting will look finished anyway. So this story ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Wood Panel, Tempera
Music in my mind. Singing
Located in Zofingen, AG
At first It should be two paintings about "Music in my mind" - one about listening and immersed in herself, and another - about the singing and giving out. It all began with a beautiful Lily and the painting "Music in my mind. Listening", while the second canvas waited about two years until artist find the proper model. Finally the wonderfull singer Tatyana agreed to pose for him and "Music in my mind. Singing" was finished.
Once completed, this painting was shown in 2016 at Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Oil, Canvas
Kangwu Temple. View from the courtyard (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Waiting for the rice to cook, Muli-Tibet County, China (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Qiang Gang settlement "Unyielding" (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Permanent Marker, Paper, Tempera
Mother and Son (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Eya Village. Piglets on the street (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Eya Village. Little horses (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with ...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
The Girls and their Dog in Tibetan village (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Do not be afraid, son! (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Tibetan Tea (sketch)
Located in Zofingen, AG
Sheet from the artist's traveler album. This sketch was made live in November 2018 during expedition in remote areas of Muli-Tibet County in China with marker, white tempera and watercolor.
Flattened, pasted and pressed onto a thick cardboard sheet.
Signed in the lower right corner with the stylized letter "M"
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov won 5 awards at once in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition including the prestigious William Bouguereau Award. In addition, his painting "Girl with a Gun" was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander...
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2010s Realist Evgeniy Monahov
Materials
Paper, Permanent Marker, Tempera
Tangerine girl
Located in Zofingen, AG
Once upon a time where is a girl who loved tangerines most of all, sometimes it seemed that she herself was a tangerine princess - in the evening light her skin seemed orange and smells of tangerines.
Experimental work done on black paper with industrial marker and tempera.
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In 2021 Evgeniy Monahov...
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2010s Impressionist Evgeniy Monahov
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Paper, Tempera
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