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The canvas was created in 1915 with oil on wood.
Nesterov is a great Russian artist who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His paintings are known throughout our country. He was a portrait master. But even more significant are his canvases on religious themes, paintings of temples.
Nesterov is the creator of a great painting written on the life of St. Sergius of Radonezh, "Vision to the Youth Bartholomew." Holy Russia was the most important thing for him in life. His work is mainly religious motives. Portraits began to meet much later. Nesterov began to depict female images after his wife died at the birth of his child.
On many canvases one can trace the similarity in features with the wife of the great artist.
The main portraiture of Nesterov began already in post-revolutionary Russia. All his faces are written from real people, because in them he saw the main human essence.
He created about ten of his own self-portraits. He never wrote by order, he was always an independent artist. Nesterov is a master of graphics on his canvases. In a self-portrait of 1915, Nesterov portrayed himself against the backdrop of his favorite place. He had already used it for writing 20 years earlier.
The artist was very fond of this quiet river, a view of mountains and forests in different seasons. He portrayed himself in the foreground, as if showing the image of a new century man. His haughty gaze looks down on the viewer. The image is extremely strict, but his soul hurts. He understood and was keenly concerned about the events that began in Russia.
Showing himself in this image, the artist displayed new people, old times and silence are a thing of the past. Russia is waiting for a time of great turmoil and hard times. The landscape, depicted in the background, the artist wanted to leave in his heart and show the audience decades later. The canvas causes anxiety in the soul and sadness.
The painting is in storage at the State Russian Museum.
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