Does anyone know who this Russian artist is?

It seems to be Mikhail Ivanovich Avilov (1882 - 1954)

Mikhail Avilov was mostly known as a painter of battle pieces. At least one of his paintings can be easily recognised by almost every Russian: "Peresvet Fighting in a Single Combat against the Tatar Champion Cheli-bey (at the opening of the Battle of Kulikovo)", 1943.


Here are some of his other works:

"A Ride of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich"


"A Moscow Troika (Coach-and-Three) ", 1938.

"Small River in Winter" (Sketch), 1949.

Hi Serso, Thanks for the info on Mikhail Avilov, and posting some of his works. As you probably know, I fell in love with Russian art since my first trip to Russia and seeing the works at Tretyakov Gallery. BTW, how are you and your wife doing? I've been traveling like "crazy" for the past few years, and have no plans to travel this year - yet. I just finished a 26-day cruise to the South Pacific, and had a port stop at Easter Island. If you're interested, I did a travelogue with pictures on a2k. Hope to hear from you. T.

CJ, I'm impressed! Do you have interest in Russian art?

I have an original watercolor painting by Alexandre Benois hanging in my living room. I have a print of my other favorate painting by Benois:
http://www.russianavantgard.com/Artists/benois/benois_china_pavillon.html

At night with lamp light, the interior of the pagoda lights up as if there was a light in the painting. This photo is not very good and not as beautiful as the original painting.

My main Kandinsky painting hanging on my living room wall is Russian Woman in a Landscape:
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/foreign/russian/art/kandinsky-woman.html

This is an early work by Kandinsky before he focused on his famous abstracts.

BBB

BBB, I love the techniques used by Benoit. What I find in Russian art is their ability to tell a story while using unusual artistic techniques (out of the ordinary).

cicerone, in Europe we have many exhibits of various Russian artists, so
we get to know some of them. Kandinsky is probably the most famous one,
and Marc Chagall is also Russian born, although I liked his earlier pictures
more than the ones he painted in later years.

Isaak Levitan's scenery pictures http://www.cozy-corner.com/art/images/levitan_Lake_%20Russia.jpg I like very much
and I love the old icon painters, like Andrey Rublev (I wish I had one icon of his).

hi , c.i. !

i assume you are familiar with the website of the hermitage museum ?
if not :

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html

btw i often spend (waste ?) an hour and more going through the websites of the world's museums - i alway keep going back to the british museum - but there are certainly many museums all over the world with wonderful websites .
hbg

anyone interested in participating and contributing to the topic : "museums of the world" ?
hbg

(i'll just start one - we'll see if there is any interest)

Absolutely beautiful.

See the paintings, costumes, and stage designs by Benois in partnership with Marc Chagal in Paris:

http://www.russianavantgard.com/artists_world_of_art/alexandre_benois.html

Scroll down to view the Kandinsky paintings ranging for his early work to his abstact period"

http://www.russianavantgard.com/wassily_kandinsky.html#Paintings

You need to talk to liontamerX. He's all about the Russian artists. It was interesting to go through an exhibit of Russian art at the Guggenheim and discuss the work with him afterward.

Noddy wrote about the Russian exhibition at the Guggenheim. Black Box, Beautiful Corner et al http://able2know.org/topic/43309-112#post-1656017