Valentin Serov

1865–1911 · Russian Empire · Impressionism

Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (19 January 1865 – 5 December 1911) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Belle Époque, active in St. Petersburg and Moscow, generally considered the primary portraitist of his generation. Wikipedia

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Fresh, lively portraits with natural light and quick, confident strokes; girls with peaches, aristocrats, writers.

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“Girl with peaches”, 1887 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Rape of Europa”, 1910 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Ida Rubinstein”, 1910 — Russian Museum
“Mika Morozov”, 1901 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Girl in the Sunlight”, 1888 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Zinaida Yusupova by V.Serov”, 1902 — Russian Museum
“Princess Olga Orlova”, 1911 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Maria Yermolova”, 1905 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Count Feliks Feliksovich Sumarokov-Yelstov later Prince Yusupov”, 1903 — Russian Museum
“Odysseus and Nausicaa”, 1910 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Henriette Girshman”, 1907 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Ivan Zabelin”, 1892 — State Historical Museum
“Prince Nicholas Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston”, 1903 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Sophia Botkina”, 1899 — Russian Museum
“Ivan Morozov”, 1910 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Children. Sasha and Yura Serov”, 1899 — Russian Museum
“Isaac Levitan”, 1893 — Tretyakov Gallery
“The Prince Vladimir Mikhailovich Golitsyn”, 1906 — State Historical Museum
“Portrait of Sophia Dragomirova-Lukomskaya”, 1900 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Maria Akimova”, 1908 — National Gallery of Armenia
“Portrait of Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova” — Hermitage Museum
“Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Petrovna Riding to Hound”, 1900 — Russian Museum
“Madame Lwoff”, 1895 — Musée d'Orsay
“Alexander III with document in arms”, 1900 — Russian Museum
“Ilya Repin”, 1892 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Crow and canary”, 1896 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Ida Rubinstein” — Tretyakov Gallery
“Bathing of a Horse”, 1905 — Russian Museum
“Pavel Blaramberg”, 1888 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Pavel Chistyakov”, 1881 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Peasant Woman in a Cart”, 1896 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of the Artist Konstantin Korovin”, 1891 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Nicholas II”, 1900 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich”, 1897 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of the actrice G.H. Fedotovoj”, 1905 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Porträt der Yelena Oliv”, 1909 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Sergej Diaghilev”, 1904 — Russian Museum
“Pavel Tretyakov”, 1899 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Vladimir Girshman”, 1911 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Francesco Tamagno”, 1891 — Tretyakov Gallery

Valentin Serov

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