Boris Kustodiev

1878–1927 · Soviet Union

Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (7 March 1878 – 28 May 1927) was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period. Wikipedia

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Bright, festive Russian provincial life: merchants, fairs and plump beauties in a decorative, folk-like style.

62 works in the quiz. Play a round on Boris Kustodiev — not whether it is theirs, but which one.

Works

“The Beauty”, 1915 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Merchant wife at tea by B.Kustodiev”, 1918 — Russian Museum
“Russian Venus”, 1926 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
“Bolshevik”, 1920 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Portrait of Chaliapin”, 1921 — Russian Museum
“Shrovetide”, 1919 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of Professors Kapitsa and Semenov”, 1921 — Academician P. L. Kapitsa's Memorial Museum Office
“Mir iskusstva group portrait”, 1920 — Russian Museum
“The Fair”, 1906 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Reading of the Manifest”, 1909 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
“Moscow tavern”, 1916 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Self-Portrait”, 1912 — Uffizi Gallery
“The Church Parade of the Finnish Life Guards Regiment”, 1906 — Hermitage Museum
“Beauty”, 1921 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Beauty”, 1919
“The Merchant Wife and the Domovoi”, 1922
“Beauty”, 1918 — Tula Oblast Art Museum
“Tsar Nicholas II”, 1915
“Arriving for Shrovetide”, 1916
“Palm market with Spassky Gate”, 1917
“Sailor and His Girl”, 1920
“After the storm”, 1921
“Portrait of Igor Grabar”, 1916
“Bakhchisaray”, 1917
“Pancake Week”, 1916 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Village Festival”, 1924 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Portrait of Konstantin Somov”, 1914 — Russian Museum
“Porträt des Ivan Bilibin”, 1901 — Russian Museum
“Women drinking tea”, 1918 — Russian Museum
“Portrait of the Polenow Family”, 1904 — Belvedere
“Alexander Anisimov”, 1915 — Russian Museum
“Fyodor Notthaft”, 1921 — Russian Museum
“Ivan Yershov”, 1922 — Tretyakov Gallery
“February 27, 1917”, 1917 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Peter Kapitza”, 1926 — Fitzwilliam Museum
“Gostiny Dvor (In a merchant shout)”, 1916
“Easter Night”, 1917 — Art Museum of Estonia's Foreign Painting Collection
“Nun”, 1923 — Art Museum of Estonia's Foreign Painting Collection
“Merchant’s Wife drinking tea”, 1923 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
“Provinces”, 1910 — Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts