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Portrait of a Woman with Red Shawl

Creation period
1913
Place of сreation
Russia
Dimensions
79x66 cm
Technique
oil, canvas
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Nikolai Bekker
Portrait of a Woman with Red Shawl
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The artist Nikolai Bekker was born in 1877 in the family of the academician of architecture, state councilor Nikolai Bekker, who supervised the construction of apartment buildings in St. Petersburg. After grammar school, he entered the Institute of the Transport Engineers and began to take private lessons from the painter Joseph Krachkovsky.
In 1901, Bekker entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied until 1910, his teachers being Pavel Kovalevsky, Franz Roubaud and Jan Zionglinsky.

At first, Becker painted landscapes in oil and pastels. In 1914, he designed the set for the opera ‘Aida’ by Giuseppe Verdi for the theater of the People’s House in St. Petersburg.

However, Becker won renown as a master of fashionable portraits. The artist was commissioned to paint beautiful ladies and operetta divas, actresses, ballerinas, etc.
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All in matte silvery tones of black silk with pearls, the portrait makes the impression of a painting, and the model herself, with her warm hues of the body, looks like a pink pearl within the soft silk and matte necklaces.
The art historian and critic Olga Bazankur wrote about his “Portrait of M.P. Ginsburg”
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After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Becker emigrated to Constantinople, where within three years he created about 170 portraits of the representatives of the occupation countries — British, American and French diplomats and military officials, as well as their families. From Constantinople, Becker moved to Paris, where he continued his career as a portrait painter. He occasionally traveled to London and Madrid, where he painted numerous portraits of the members of the English and Spanish nobility.
 
Bekker painted “Portrait of a Lady with a Red Shawl”, that is on display in the exhibition, in the genre of salon academism of the early 20th century. One of the main characteristics of this style was the lack of value judgements: the artist did not condemn, denounce or feel sorry for his models. Therefore, Bekker did not seek to draw the viewer’s attention to any characteristic feature of the model. On the contrary, he portrayed her in a deliberately neutral way — just the way she was.
 
The artist did not strive for deep psychological studies either. He preferred to portray the external features — the model’s calmness and beauty. The colors of the portrait — pink, red and golden-beige — are within the bright range that was typical of the salon-academic style.
 
The composition is traditional for a chamber portrait: the artist depicted the model half-length and close-up. The neutral gray background and the relaxed pose do not distract attention from the sitter’s face.
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Portrait of a Woman with Red Shawl

Creation period
1913
Place of сreation
Russia
Dimensions
79x66 cm
Technique
oil, canvas
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