Ruins.

 #Anichkin хроники #covid chronicles

This was a free interpretation of the theme of 'ruins' in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

Портрет А.Аничкина, холст масло 

Portrait of Alexander Anichkin,

oil on canvas

38 х 32 см

October / октябрь 2021

Unknown author, school of fauvistes / Неизвестный автор, школа фовистов

In private collection / В частной коллекции

NB: #язык "Портрет жены художника" - я никогда не мог понять, кто кого рисовал, жена художника или художник жену? 

Portrait d'A. Anitchkine,

toile, huile

38x32cm

octobre 2021

Auteur inconnu, école fauvistes

Dans une collection privée

"Portrait de la femme de l'artiste" - Je n'ai jamais pu comprendre qui dessinait qui, la femme peignait l'artiste, ou l'artiste peignait sa femme ? 

©A.Anichkin/M.Ingram

Portrait of Alexander Anichkin.

Portrait of writer A.Anichkin, Feb. 2017
"Sasha", bottom right
Oil on cardboard, 80x42 cm, 
signed by author bottom left 'David Taylor', 10 Feb 2017'
Original in private collection.
Est. v. £1,255

Squinting Chekhov.

I never realised Chekhov had a squint. I've always had a soft spot for people with a squint, especially in women.  'What else did she want, that witch with a very slight squint in one eye?' (from Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, tr. by Michael Glenny).

But Chekhov! The great playwright and humourist, the master of short story who is always portrayed with his trademark pince-nez on!

In this portrait of 1903, Serov, a great portraitist (he is famous for the portrait of Shaliapin among others), removes the pince-nez and tucks it inside Chekhov's waistcoat at the bottom of the picture, as though saying, there, he is not a sad narrator of declime, doom and gloom, look, he is a bubbly, fun loving man.

This portrait and a big gallery of Serov's works is here on Wikiart.