Oil painting Mountain canyon Elena Varnavovna Nagaevskaya

№Verns 686


*** ABOUT THIS PAINTING ***
* TITLE: "Mountain canyon"
* ARTISTS: Elena Varnavovna Nagaevskaya
* SIZE: 31x42 cm/'12.20x16.53 inches'
* MEDIUM: oil, wood
* HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection
* CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product

About the artist: May 21 (June 3) 1900 (Yaprintsevo village, Orenburg province) - 1990 (M.)

Painter, graphic artist, art critic

From a peasant family. She graduated from high school in Aktobe, Mariinsky four-year pedagogical school (1918). She studied at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the 1st Central Asian University in Tashkent (1920-1924), then in M.: at the courses of painting fabrics (1927), three-year Izoprofkurs (1927-1930) with N. A. Udaltsova, the studios of N. A. Udaltsova and A. V. Lentulov (1930s), in the landscape workshop of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Artists, Painters and Designers in M. (1940-1941), M. State University. MV Lomonosov (1945–1949) at the art history department of the philological faculty.

She lived in M., from 1937 - in Bakhchisarai (C.) and M.. She was married to the artist and art historian A. G. Romm. In the late 1920s, she became close to members of the Society of M. Artists (former members of the Jack of Diamonds association) and the Thirteen group. She performed a number of cubist compositions and works in the spirit of "M. Cesannism": "Into the future (Flight of a rocket)", "City landscape (M.)" (both - 1928), "Composition with three figures" (1928-1930), "Still life with red decanter "(1929)," Landscape with an airship "," Self-portrait "(both - 1930)," M.. Tsvetnoy Boulevard "(1933) and others.

In 1937 she met KF Bogaevsky and experienced his influence in her work. In the post-war years, she used the advice of A. V. Kuprin, worked with him in Bakhchisarai. She created genre compositions, landscapes, still lifes. The author of the pictorial cycles "Bakhchisarai and the surrounding area", "Koktebel" (1950-60s), "Gurzuf" (1960-1970s) In 1968-1972 she regularly worked at the creative dacha named after. D. N. Kardovsky in Pereslavl-Zalessky, executed the painting and graphic series "R. North" (1968-1972). In the 1960s and 1980s, she also created a number of abstract compositions.

Since 1932 - participant of exhibitions (exhibition of the City Committee of Painters in M.). Member of the MOSSKh (MSSKh, MOSKh). Exhibited at exhibitions: young novice artists of M. (1934), women artists for the International Women's Day (1939), the M. city exhibition of painting, sculpture (1946, 1947), M. artists for the XXII Congress (1959), women artists (1960, 1961) in M.; artists of C. (1952), Autumn exhibition of works of artists of C. (1955), C.n regional art exhibition (1960), "Spring palette" (1971, 1973), Regional art exhibition dedicated to International Women's Day on March 8 (1975) in S.. She held personal exhibitions in Bakhchisarai (1959, 1962), houses of culture in the village of Stary Krym (1962), the village of Preduschelnoe (1962), in M. (1964), Pereslavl-Zalessky (1968, 1969), S. (1970, 1980), S. ( 1971).

Participated in the publication: “R. Art. Essays on the life and work of artists of the second half of the 19th century ”(M., 1954, reprinted in 1971). Author of monographs: “Ivan Petrovich Vitali. 1794-1855 "(M., 1950)," Olga Maksimovna Manuilova. Life and Work ”(Frunze, 1965); the guidebook "Bakhchisarai and its surroundings" (S., 1968; reprints - 1976, 1979); many articles on art.

The artist's memorial exhibition "Symphony of the Colors of C." was held in 2010 in S..

Creativity is presented in many museum collections, including the State R. Museum, Novokuznetsk Art Museum, Historical, Art and Architectural Museum-Reserve "New Jerusalem", S. Art Museum. M.P. Kroshitsky, Kiev National Museum of R. Art, Karakalpak State Museum of Arts. IV Savitsky in Nukus and others. The Memorial Art Museum of E.V. Nagaevskaya and A.G. Romm was opened in Bakhchisarai.