#Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov, Harlequin and Death, 1907

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Erotic Scene Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov (detail)

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"The lovers" (1933)

Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939) Весенний пейзаж - Spring Landscape (1910) pencil, watercolour on cardboard Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Sleeping Lady in a Room - Konstantin Andreevich Somov, 1919

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov, Sleeping Lady in a Room, 1919, oil on canvas

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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Sleeping Lady in a Room, 1919 Konstantin Andreevich Somov

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MWW Artwork of the Day (6/30/20) Konstantin Andreevich Somov (Russian, 1869-1939) Harlequin and Death (1918) Black ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, 28.6 x 22.3 cm. Private Collection

Somov was particularly influenced by the 'cult of beauty' and the Commedia dell'arte. His charming Rococo scenes, featuring Harlequin and ladies in rose-coloured silks create a 'Somovian' world characterised by nostalgia and artifice.

Somov's work juxtaposes the anxiety and decadence associated with the fin de siècle, an age which Sergei Diaghilev assessed with great precision: 'We live in a terrible time of change; we are condemned to die in order that the new culture, which shall take from us what remains of our weary wisdom, should live, history says so, and aesthetics confirms it. We are witnessing the greatest historical moment of stock-taking and ending, for the sake of a new, unknown culture'. In the poetry of Aleksandr Blok, whose work Somov illustrated, we find a possible solution: '...in the embraces of a fool and farce the old world will wax beautiful and grow young, and its eyes will become clear, fathomless'.

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Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869-1939) River Scene (1929) gouache on paper 36.2 x 44.8 cm

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Fireworks   -    Konstantin Andreevich Somov , 1929  

Russian,1869-1939

Bodycolour on black wove paper

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