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Roses

Creation period
1904-1905
Dimensions
65x54 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
2
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Nikolai Sapunov
Roses
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Nikolai Sapunov was a vivid and original Russian artist of the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. He was one of the founders of Blue Rose - the association of symbolist painters who ‘aspired towards transcendental, other-worldly.’ Modern researchers call Sapunov a major figure in the Russian pre-avant-garde art.

Nikolai Sapunov lived an eventful but short life. He died in an accident: in the summer of 1912 during a sea cruise along the Gulf of Finland in Teriok near St.-Petersburg the crowded boat transporting a noisy bohemian company keeled over and Sapunov drowned.
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A Silver Age poet Mikhail Kuzmin, one of the surviving passengers of the ill-fated ship, recollected:
‘he [Sapunov] received several predictions that he would drown, and he believed it so much that he was even cautious of crossing the Neva on a small boat, so one can’t help being surprised at some really fatal momentous mental block that caused him to forget all fears and set off on his own free will on that sea cruise that so sadly and irretrievably made true the predictions of fortune tellers’.
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Sapunov’s sudden and tragic death sparked a keen interest of the public in his life and creative work that were always shrouded in mystery. Contemporaries knew the artist as an ambiguous and even mysterious person. He presented himself to society sometimes as a refined esthete, sometimes as a vulgar fop. He painted exquisite still life scenes alongside rackety barroom scenes.

Astrakhan Art Gallery exhibits Sapunov’s painting Roses of 1904–1905. The Gallery founder Pavel Dogadin purchased the painting from Moscow collector Tarasov in 1913, when Russian art collectors had a great interest in Sapunov’s art.
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Roses is painted by ‘underwater colors’ characteristic of Nikolai Sapunov, wrote poet and artist Maximilian Voloshin. According to Voloshin,
‘it is not dusky air, but the greenish crystal of the water depth gives such blurriness to their lines, moisture to their tone; these blue flowing shimmers with the cooled gold of high summer day shining in their talk about the elusory kingdom where his soul lived for a long time’.
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Roses

Creation period
1904-1905
Dimensions
65x54 cm
Technique
oil on canvas
2
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