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Portrait of the Father Nikita Zakharovich Krylov

Creation period
1939
Place of сreation
the USSR
Dimensions
70x50 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
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The Soviet artist Porfiry Krylov became world-famous as a member of the creative collective “Kukryniksy” and their political posters and anti-war cartoons. But Krylov was most passionate about painting his family members: two wives, children, grandchildren.

The artist’s father, Nikita Zakharovich Krylov, appears in many of his son’s works. Members of his family recalled that he loved books very much and could recite “Eugene Onegin” in its entirety by heart. Nikita Krylov married Elizaveta Dmitrievna Polosatova, the daughter of a hereditary Tula gunsmith. Six children were born in the Krylov family, and Porfiry was the eldest.

In 1913, the family was struck by great grief, Nikita Zakharovich buried his wife, daughter and two sons — all of whom died of scarlet fever. In order to somehow support his eldest son Porfiry who was very fond of drawing, Nikita Krylov presented the boy with his first oil paints. The artist remembered this gift for the rest of his life and later wrote about it in “The Three of Us” — a book of memoirs of the Kukryniksy artistic group:

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I was eleven years old at that time. I could never stop drawing and even tried to paint with watercolors. One day, on payday, Dad brought me oil paints and pig hair paint brushes. I cannot even begin to explain how happy my father’s gift made me. I woke up several times at night, unscrewed the caps from the tubes and experienced great pleasure from breathing in the smell of oil paints. (I still do this sometimes, for some reason it seems to me that the current paints do not smell as good as those ‘first’ ones.) The next day I tried to paint something with dad’s gift, but suffered a bitter failure. I diluted the paints with sunflower oil, and they left greasy spots on the paper. I even cried out of frustration and resentment. Fortunately, a distant relative whose cousins were artists came to my aid. She advised to first coat the paper with a sealant solution, let it dry and only then start painting. So I did. My results began to improve. I copied from postcards, from drawings I found in anthologies, from pictures in magazines. Both at home and at school I was called ‘Our Artist’. I really liked that nickname.

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Portrait of the Father Nikita Zakharovich Krylov

Creation period
1939
Place of сreation
the USSR
Dimensions
70x50 cm
Technique
canvas, oil
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