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Mikhail Nesterov

1862–1942 · Soviet Union · Symbolism

Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (31 May 1862 – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of Symbolist art in Russia. Wikipedia

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Quiet Russian spirituality: monks, saints and thin birches in pale spring landscapes.

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Works

• “The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew”, 1889 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Great Taking of the Veil”, 1897 — Russian Museum
• “Portrait of Ivan Pavlov”, 1935 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Portrait of Alexey Shchusev”, 1941 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “In Russia. Soul of the people.”, 1914 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Hermit”, 1888 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Portrait of Ivan Pavlov (1930)”, 1930 — Russian Museum
• “Under Blagovest”, 1895 — Russian Museum
• “Two Ladas”, 1905 — Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
• “Archbishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky)”, 1917 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “For the love potion”, 1888
• “Elder (Abraham, the Servant of God)”, 1914
• “Autumn landscape”, 1934
• “St.Olga”
• “Saint Russia”
• “Portrait of Leo Tolstoy”, 1907
• “Portrait of Olga Nesterova (Woman in a Riding Habit)”, 1906
• “Thinker (Portrait of philisopher Ivan Ilyin)”, 1921
• “Crucifixion”, 1912
• “Self-Portrait”, 1915
• “Portrait of the Surgeon Sergei Yudin”, 1935
• “Tsarevich Dimitry”, 1899 — Russian Museum
• “Girl by the pond (Portrait of N.M. Nesterova), 1923”, 1923 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Portrait of the artists P.D. and A.D. Korin”, 1930 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Viktor Vasnetsov”, 1925 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Vera Mukhina”, 1940 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Nightingale Sings”, 1923 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
• “Portrait of the philosophers S.N. Bulgakov and P.A. Florensky”, 1917 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “V.G.Chertkov”, 1935
• “Volga”, 1922
• “A.N. Severtsov”, 1925
• “Landscape of a Lake Bank” — Art Palace of Georgia – Museum of Cultural History
• “By the lake”, 1924
• “E.P. Razumova”, 1936
• “E.S. Kruglikova”, 1938
• “Elizaveta Kruglikova (1865-1941)”, 1939
• “Nun”, 1909 — National Museum in Warsaw
• “Sea view.”, 1919 — National Museum in Warsaw
• “Nuns”, 1893 — Slovak National Gallery
• “Portrait of Ivan Pavlov (1935)”, 1935

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