Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky became famous in 1874 thanks to his painting ‘Repair works on the railway’, which was subsequently acquired by Moscow collector Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. With the earned money Konstantin Apollonovich was able to go to France, where he studied the works of French artists, wrote a lot in the open air, worked on the transmission of light. One of the paintings of this period was the multi-figure composition ‘Travelers in Auvergne’, which is now in the collection of the State Russian Museum. The artist’s wife donated the sketch to the Penza Picture Gallery on the centenary of the master’s birthday.
Landscape. Kosino
Creation period
1887
Dimensions
71x187 cm
71×187 cm
71×187 cm
Technique
aquarelle on canvas
Exhibition
5
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Konstantin Savitsky
Landscape. Kosino
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In 1875, Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky returned to Russia, because ‘the art is only real’ when it arises and develops on native soil.
The artist made the landscape ‘Kosino’ in a very unusual technique: not with oil on canvas, as was customary, but with watercolors. Now Kosino is a district of the capital, built up with high-rise buildings, and at the beginning of the 20th century, it was a picturesque village near Moscow with beautiful lakes and temples, where only in 1894 a railway station was opened.
The landscape shows the access road to the village, on the left you can see the Assumption Church and the bell tower that have survived to our days, in the lower tier of which is the St. Nicholas Church. Around them are rural houses with thatched roofs, in front of which there is a golden wheat field. On a fine day, peasants on a cart return to the village - the artist seemed to follow them when he painted this picture. According to family legend, driving along this road K.A. Savitsky proposed to Valeria Ippolitovna Dumulen, his future wife.
Since 1897, he, along with his second wife and children, settled in Penza and assumed the post of director of an art school being opened in the city. Other stories and landscapes were waiting for him here. ‘This land, blessed for its mixture of all nationalities, new village-new type… customs, here are the Great Russians and Little Russians, Tatars and Mordovians… colorful, shiny paintings, silver headdresses in the sun in the rye during the harvest, ” wrote K.A. Savitsky in a letter to V.D. Polenov.
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Penza Regional Picture Gallery named after K.A. Savitsky
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Landscape. Kosino
Creation period
1887
Dimensions
71x187 cm
71×187 cm
71×187 cm
Technique
aquarelle on canvas
Exhibition
5
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