ABRAM YEFIMOVICH ARKHIPOV (1862-1930)
ABRAM YEFIMOVICH ARKHIPOV (1862-1930)

Russian Peasant Woman Drinking Tea

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ABRAM YEFIMOVICH ARKHIPOV (1862-1930)
Russian Peasant Woman Drinking Tea
signed and dated 'A. Arkhipov 1917' (lower left)
oil on canvas
55½x42in. (141x106.7cm.)

拍品專文

Abram Yefimovich Arkhipov trained at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Vasilii Perov, Aleksei Safrasov, Vladimir Makovskii and Vasilii Polenov. He joined the Wanderers in 1889 and the Union of Russian artists in 1903.
While indebted to the realist painting of Perov, Arkhipov also gave particular attention to effects of light, rhythm and texture, even in his most didactic canvases, such as Washerwomen, executed in the late 1890's and now in the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow. Arkhipov is probably best remembered for his dynamic pictures of peasant women, a constant theme in the 1910's and 1920's, in which the bravura of his brushstroke, rendered with a heavy impasto of bright red and orange paint, communicates the energy of his subjects.
The above painting is typical of Arkhipov's optimism and joie de vivre, and paintings such as this one often served as models for the young artists of the 1920's and 1930's who founded the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.