Friday, November 16, 2012

Filipp Maliavin 1869-1940

Born Oct. 10 (22), 1869, in the village of Kazanka, in present-day Orenburg Oblast; died Dec. 23, 1940, in Brussels. Russian painter. Maliavin, the son of a peasant, studied at the monastery icon-painting workshop at Mount Athos in Greece from 1885 to 1891 and at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts under I. E. Repin from 1892 to 1899. He visited France in 1900, and after 1922 he lived abroad. Maliavin painted a number of portraits of peasants.

Russian women.

Portrait of a Bearded Peasant in a Sheepskin Coat. Oil on canvas. 95.9 x 62.2 cm




The Balalaika Player, signed, oil on canvas, 225 x 125.5 cm
Verka, oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm
Peasant Girl, 1903

Baba.
A secret.

The whirlwind.

Portrait of Leon Trotsky in uniform,
pencil and colored pencil on paper
17½ x 12½ in.

Krestianka, 1984.



Woman in a red dress.

Sleighride. Oil on canvas. 47 x 82 cm

A sleigh ride. Oil on canvas. 200.7 x 223.5 cm. Painted in 1933


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