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The Portrait of the Artist Nikolai Khokhryakov

Creation period
1920s
Dimensions
68x55,5 cm
68x55,5 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
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Alexey Isupov
The Portrait of the Artist Nikolai Khokhryakov
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Works by the artist Alexei Isupov are in the collections of major Russian and foreign museums. His self-portrait is represented in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, among the self-portraits of other famous artists of the world. Isupov was a native of Vyatka (now Kirov), but he lived half of his life in Italy.

This portrait shows one of the first teachers of the future master – the landscape painter Nikolai Nikolaevich Khokhryakov. This work is an etude to the painting, which is located in the Khokhryakov Museum in Kirov. The painting was created while Isupov was in Vyatka, shortly before his departure to Italy in 1926.

By the time he left Russia, the artist had already been well known as a landscape painter. But in Rome his interest in the pure landscape genre was diminishing, and he got more involved in portraiture. Isupov painted female portraits most often than male ones, but self-portraits also played an important role, for example, the artist depicted himself as a circus artist, a gardener and a gambler.


At that time, the creative style of the artist changed. He began using brighter and more intense colors, tried to find a complex perspective, to depict nature in a more expressive way.

The artist developed his portrait drawing techniques in the lessons at the portrait and genre workshop of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. He attached great importance to contrast, play of light and shadow, and used the peculiarities of impressionist painting. The works created during this period are often built on the collision of black and white shades with all the richness of halftones and transitions, in which one can see a reference to works by Serov. However, his manner was also influenced by the Venetian painters.

In Italy his works of art were a great success, several newspapers wrote that his works became ‘a true revelation’ for the European audience.
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Isupov A.V. - Self-portrait with the dog Vatrushka. 1943
Despite the fact that many Russian artists lived on the Apennine peninsula at that time, and Isupov himself did not experience financial difficulties, the artist longed for his homeland and continued to paint Russian landscapes by memory. Isupov never considered himself an emigrant, emphasizing that he was living in Italy only because of his state of health. ‘My wife and I are not emigrants: our passports are Soviet and we are Soviet citizens. It wasn’t a civil war that drove me to Italy, but a disease, ’ he said.
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The artist stayed in Rome even after Benito Mussolini came to power. During the Second World War he actively helped the Resistance movement, including hiding some members of the movement from the Nazis in his home. 
 
In 1966 the wife of the artist Tamara Nikolaevna brought his legacy to Russia, fulfilling her husband’s will. About 300 paintings and graphic works were transferred to the Vyatka Art Museum in the artist’s homeland.
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Women’s portraits of the Italian period by Isupov
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The Portrait of the Artist Nikolai Khokhryakov

Creation period
1920s
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oil on canvas
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