In 1902, immediately after graduating from the Imperial Academy of Arts and returning to his native Orenburg, Lukian Popov married Vera Kryuchkova, a peasant from Voronezh province.
Portrait of the Wife in a Colorful Shawl
Creation period
1901 to 1904
Dimensions
79x54 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
Collection
Exhibition
3
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Lukian Popov
Portrait of the Wife in a Colorful Shawl
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Portrait of the Wife in a Red Sundress, 1908
She became a frequent heroine of his pictures. Popov painted her portraits in different images, and portrayed her in genre paintings. The artist created the Portrait of the Wife in a Colorful Shawl in 1901 to 1902.
Popov portrayed his wife amongst simple rural landscape; a slight blush is lighting up her cheeks, and her gaze is wistful. The artist almost always depicted women and girls with calm, kind, peaceful and even meek expressions on their faces. The inner world of his characters interested him much more than their physical beauty.
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Woman with a Ring, 1901 to 1904
On the Portrait of the Wife in a Red Sundress Popova is also posing in a bright peasant outfit. However, here the muffled winter landscape is replaced by sultry summer.
Popov often portrayed his wife as the heroine of everyday scenes. For example, in the painting Woman with a Ring, she is thoughtfully trying on a ring after waking up. In the small-sized work Woman with a Lamp, the heroine is immersed in her thoughts amongst a pacifying evening environment.
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The painting In the Garden (Tea Party) depicts Vera Popova pregnant.
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In the Garden (Tea Party), 1911
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Popov endowed other heroines, for instance, his mother, with modesty and meekness as well. The wife of the artist Yerofei Mekhed he also portrayed as a calm and good-natured lady.
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Portrait of the Wife of the Artist I.R.Mekhed, 1897
At the same time, in an autobiography, the artist described his mother as a woman with a strong character, ‘although not without poetical inclinations’. Even in the official portraits, Woman with a Veil and Woman with a Diadem, Popov depicted his models in a rather naturalistic fashion, devoid of spectacular beauty in its secular sense.
Probably, Lukian Popov acquired such exalted ideas about female virtues under the influence of the Russian classics.
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In his autobiography, the artist said that the owner of the stationery shop where he had worked as a teenager used to bring for him books by Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, Nikolai Nekrasov from the local library.
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Orenburg Regional Museum of Fine Arts
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Portrait of the Wife in a Colorful Shawl
Creation period
1901 to 1904
Dimensions
79x54 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
Collection
Exhibition
3
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