KOROVINE Constantin Aléxïévitch (1861-1939)
A street in Boulogne-sur-Seine.
Oil on panel signed by the artist lower left in Latin letters: "C. Korovine, Paris". Korovine, Paris", preserved in its original Montparnasse-style carved and gilded wood frame, with gilded metal cartel with the artist's name on the lower part of the frame.
Good condition, minor damage to frame.
Sight: H.: 32.5 cm - W.: 39.5 cm.
Frame: H.: 50 cm - W.: 57 cm.
Biography: Constantin Alekseyevich Korovin was a Russian post-impressionist painter and theater decorator. He studied at the Moscow Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, then completed his training in 1882 at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. He taught at the Moscow Art Institute from 1901 to 1918, then became a member of Savva Mamontoff's circle from 1903 to 1922, of Le Monde de l'art and of the Union of Russian Artists. He took part in exhibitions organized by the Société des Ambulants (1889-1899) and the Moscow Society of Art Lovers (1886-1896). He created sets for Mamontov's private opera house in Moscow, the Bolshoi, and the Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky theaters in St. Petersburg. After the October Revolution, he moved to Paris in 1923, where he died in 1939.
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