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In the Garden (Tea Party)

Creation period
1911
Dimensions
85x111 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
10
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Lukian Popov
In the Garden (Tea Party)
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Lukian Popov finished the picture In the Garden (Tea Party) in 1911. He was an accomplished artist by then, having graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and having studied foreign and domestic art while traveling about Europe and Russia. He was also a full-fledged member of the Association of Itinerants and of the Kuindzhi Art Society, and participated in major exhibitions. Popov was awarded the title of Academician of painting as early as in 1912. 

The model for both heroines of the painting was the artist’s wife Vera Popova, a peasant woman from the Voronezh province. As he often did, Popov emphasized the general mood of this picture through its background landscape. It is painted in broad strokes, without fine details; however, the bright sunlight casting its soft highlights on dishes, clothes and grass fills the picture with tranquility and calm comfort. 
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Woman with a Green Lamp, 1900’s
Popov often portrayed his wife. In the Woman with a Green Lamp, she is depicted as an urban lady; in the Portrait of the Wife in a Colorful Shawl and Portrait of the Wife in a Red Sundress, she is a peasant girl. Vera Popova is sitting at the piano in the genre piece The Groom and stands in the foreground of the Meadows Flooded. 
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However, this picture is filled with a special mood. Even the plot itself, a morning tea party in the garden, the pregnancy of one of the heroines which is revealed by her silhouette, demonstrates an intimate scene from the artist’s family life.
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Meadows Flooded, 1908
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Popov touched on the “children”s” theme in his other works as well. He himself was born into a poor plowman family, and had to start working when he was twelve, getting a job at a stationery shop. Then he moved to St. Petersburg on his own and lived in poverty for a long time, feeding on boiled potatoes for months. Many of his paintings are dedicated to peasant children and their hard lot.
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Grandpa helps Granddaughter with Homework, before 1914. Source: wikipedia.org
For example, in the painting Children (1901), Popov portrayed village children driven out of their homes by sheer poverty and having to seek better life in the city at an early age. In the painting Protection (1902), the artist portrayed a children’s quarrel. The genre painting Grandpa Helps Granddaughter with Homework demonstrates affectionate connection of the close relatives.
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The pastoral of In the Garden (Tea Party) was followed by a tragic personal story. Popov’s son was born blind. This could be corrected by an operation, and Popov took his son to a famous surgeon in Kharkov. A few days after the intervention, the boy died. At the age of forty, Lukian Popov suddenly died as well.
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In the Garden (Tea Party)

Creation period
1911
Dimensions
85x111 cm
Technique
Canvas, oil
10
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