Boris Kustodiev · 1916
Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)
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Kustodiev's pre-Lenten festival — a horse-drawn troika racing through a snow-bright Russian town under a coral and turquoise sky. Pure colour-joy painted while the artist was bedridden with paralysis. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Up to 10 × 7 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)
Painted in 1916 while Kustodiev was already partially paralyzed by spinal tumours, Maslenitsa is the most-reproduced image of pre-revolutionary Russian folk life. A frozen provincial town glitters under a pink-and-gold winter sunset — onion-domed churches, troikas dashing through fresh snow, vendors and revelers gathered for the carnival week before Lent. Kustodiev painted it from memory in his Petrograd studio. The Russian Museum holds the largest version; the painting has come to stand for everything modern Russia would lose in the year that followed.
Boris Kustodiev
Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and stage designer during the Modernist period.
All Boris Kustodiev prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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