Many an artist, although highly esteemed in his home country, remains virtually unknown abroad beyond the professional world. In the case of Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev, this is not so much due to his relatively short life - Kustodiev was just 49 years old - but rather to the confused course of events in his native Russia, which was rather sidelined internationally under both the tsar and the communists.
Kustodijew, born in 1878 in Astrakhan, actually studied theology and initially took painting lessons rather on the side. But this so successfully that he was allowed to study for seven years from 1896 to 1903 at the art academy of the capital Saint Petersburg, where Ilya Repin became his teacher. His collaboration on the latter's colossal painting "The Banqueting Session of the State Council" became Kustodiev's journeyman's piece, so to speak. Otherwise, in the period until 1917, he mainly made portraits, of his family as well as of famous people of Russian contemporary history.
Trips abroad to Germany, Italy, Spain and Austria followed before his failing health threatened to end Kustodiev's career. Tuberculosis forced him into a year-long forced break in 1912 and even into a wheelchair from 1916. But neither this nor the Red Revolution could stop Kustodiev. He became a member of the renowned artists' association "Mir Iskusstva" (World of Art) and taught at the "New Artists' College" in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad, respectively.
Like so many terminally ill artists (Friedrich Schiller comes to mind), Kustodiev developed a high productivity. He was not only a painter and known for his lush colorful paintings - works such as "Promenade along the Volga" or "The Market" remind with their bright tones of August Macke -, he was also a draftsman and illustrator, who made theater sets as well as motifs for notebooks, posters, magazines (this especially for the Communist Party, which ruled Russia since 1917) and books: Many editions of famous Russian authors such as Tolstoy or Gogol feature illustrations by Kustodiev.
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev died in 1927 in Leningrad. After the turn of the millennium, his name haunted the international headlines when a painting attributed to him ("Odaliske") was auctioned off for 1.5 million pounds sterling at Christie's in London - and subsequently proved to be a forgery.
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.jpg "Russian Venus by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Shrovetide by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Harvest Flowers by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Strike by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Small Blue House by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_1923_(pencil_on_paper)_-_(MeisterDrucke-36811).jpg "Portrait of Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 1923 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_Tsar_of_Russia_Dcor_for_-_(MeisterDrucke-955471).jpg "Representation of Boris Fyodorovich Godunov (1551-1605), Tsar of Russia, Decor for the Theatre Piece")
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_the_artists_wife_1903_-_(MeisterDrucke-323148).jpg "Portrait of Yulia Yevstafievna Kustodieva, the Artist")
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.jpg "The Merchant Old Man with Money by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Festivities Marking the Opening of the Second Congress of the Comintern and Demonstration on Uritsky (Palace) Square in Petrograd on July 19th 1920 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Coachman by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Paschal greeting (a couple kissing near the table set for Easter) - Painting by Boris Michaylovich Kustodiev (1878-1927), tempera on cardboard by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, 1911 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Portrait of Feodor Shaljapin, 1922 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Freedom Loan by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_(1875-1946)_(P_-_(MeisterDrucke-1314232).jpg "Portrait of the Artist E. Lanceray. Work by Boris Michaylovich Kustodiev by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Sketch of curtain for the theatre play The Flea by E. Zamyatin, 1925-1926 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Family portrait of the Polenow family by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Emancipation of Russian Serfs in 1861 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Merchants Wife, 1923 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage design for the play Virineya by Lidia Seyfullina, 1925 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Girl at the Volga by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage Design for the Theatre Play The Flea by E. Zamyatin by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage Design for the Theatre Play The Easy Money by A. Ostrovsky by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "February 27th, 1917 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Worker and Farmer, 1923 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Study for the Celebration of the Opening of the Second Congress of the Comintern on Uritsky Square in Petrograd on July 19th 1920, 1921 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage Design for the Theatre Play Peasant Women by Alexander Neverov by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Above the River, Autumn by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maria Shostakovich, 1922 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_diplomate_russe_(Portrait_of_Peter_Alexan_-_(MeisterDrucke-1314570).jpg "Portrait of Peter Alexandrovich Saburov (1835-1918), Russian Diplomat - Oil on Canvas by Boris Michaylovich Kustodiev by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Worker and Farmer United Under the Communist Flag (Propaganda Poster) by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Easter Market at the Moscow Kremlin, 1917 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_1913_(pastel_on_cardboard)_-_(MeisterDrucke-587907).jpg "Portrait of Nikolay Rerich by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Shrove-Tide, 1916 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The 27th of February 1917 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Illustration for the Poem Grandfather Mazay and the Hares by N. Nekrasov by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Village Festival, 1924 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Red Tower in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, 1912 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Dog Catchers by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage Design for the Theatre Play The Fiery Heart by Alexander Ostrovsky by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Self-portrait with the wife on horseback by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Night Celebration on the Neva, 1923 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Merchants Woman with Purchases, 1920 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Girl at the Volga by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Merchant Dikoy. Costume Design for the Play The Storm by A. Ostrovsky, 1920 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Domovoi Peeping At The Sleeping Merchant Wife by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Shrovetide, 1919 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Stage Design for the Opera The Snow Maiden by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, 1910 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Introduction to the Revolution by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "A Russian waiter in a Moscow tavern carrying a tray of food and teapots by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Tailor, 1918 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "Portrait of Ksenia Nikolayevna Semenova Skalova by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "- 1906 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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_(Portrait_of_the_Artist_NRoeric_-_(MeisterDrucke-1317988).jpg "Portrait of the Artist N. Roerich by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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.jpg "The Harvest, 1914 by Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev")
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