Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Figurative Paintings

"Saint Germain" Paris Cityscape by Konstantin Korovine Lively Paris street scene by Konstantin Alexievitch Korovine (Constant Korovin) (Russian, 1861-1939). In a plaza outside a large building, people are going about their daily lives. In the foreground, a woman relaxes at a table with a few apples on it. A car passes behind the woman to the left. The painting is executed in Korovine's signature style - rapid, confident strokes that evoke the character of the scene without excess detail. Signed in the lower left corner "Constant Korovine". And Titled with date and signature, Location and dated: "Saint Germaine, September 13, 1931", and artist's name "Constant Korovine" written in lower right corner. Two stamps on verso (one from Douane Centrale, Paris) Board size: 13"H x 16"W Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as peasants of Vladimir gubernia. His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather. Konstantin's older brother, Sergey Korovin, was a notable realist painter. Konstantin's relative Illarion Pryanishnikov was also a prominent painter of the time and a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1875 Korovin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he learned from Vasily Perov and Alexei Savrasov. His brother Sergey was already a student of the School. During their scholar years the Korovins became friends with their fellow students Valentin Serov and Isaac Levitan...

A stunning oil on panel by Russian-born impressionist painter Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin depicting a night view of Paris. Elegant figures are sat outside cafes, the lights illuminating the dark streets. Signed lower left. Dimensions: Framed: 19"x22" Unframed: 13"x16" Provenance: Private collection - Sydney, Australia In 1874, Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, studying under Vasilii Polenov and Aleksei Savrasov. In 1885, he made the acquaintance of the art patron and railroad magnate Savva Mamontov, becoming a member of the Abramtsevo colony and a close friend of Fedor Chaliapin and Valentin Serov. In the 1880s and 1890s, he worked as a stage designer for Mamontov’s opera productions such as Sadko, Khovanshchina, and Prince Igor, and in the late 1880s and early 1890s he travelled extensively in Europe, giving particular attention to French Impressionism, which left a profound influence on his painting. In 1894, with Serov, he travelled to the Far North of Russia, sketching and painting vernacular scenes, some of which he then adjusted to the interior design for Mamontov’s Northern Pavilion at the All-Russian Art and Industry exhibition in Nizhnii-Novgorod in 1896. In 1898, he joined the World of Art group and in 1900 was appointed artist-in-residence at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, working on a number of major productions such as Cesar Pugni’s ballet, The Little Hump-Backed Horse (1901). Thereafter, Korovin accepted numerous public and private commissions for operatic and dramatic productions, including Les Orientales (1910) for Sergei Diaghilev in Paris. From 1901 until 1918, he taught at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture and, after emigrating to Paris in 1923, worked for a number of émigré theatre companies but with little success. His last major association was with Marie Kousnezoff’s Opéra Privé de Paris from 1929 to 1930. Korovin was one of Russia’s distinguished portraitists and stage designers. He made his debut as a theatrical painter in 1885 when he executed the sets and costumes for the production of Snegurochka at Mamontov’s private opera company (after Viktor Vasnetsov’s designs) and, thereafter, emerged rapidly as an independent stage designer – decorating 80 operas, 37 ballets, and 17 dramas during his lifetime. Korovin brought to the Russian stage a vibrancy that was lacking in the traditional imperial theaters, revolutionising the convention of stage design as an eclectic confection or dull ethnographical exercise by emphasising vivid colour and fast movement. Celebrated for the stylistic bravura and vivid palette with which he described both town and country, Korovin is also recognised as a perspicacious portraitist and as Russia’s premier Impressionist. Museum and Gallery Holdings: Moscow (State Central Bakhrushin Theater Mus.) Moscow (State Pushkin MFA) Moscow (State Tretyakov Gal.): The Failure; Winter in Lapland; In the Extreme North; Idyll of the North; In Winter; Paris by Night, the Boulevard des Italiens (1908);The Cafe de la Paix; Nights; The Lilac Tree...

Paris is an original artwork realized in the end of the XIX Century by Kostantin Alekseevič Korovin. Oil painting on cardboard. Hand-signed and titled on the lower left corner: Kos...