Painting NN Bazhina

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I've got a picture. Judging by the signature of its author Nikolai Bazhin. This oil on canvas, 41h71 cm, 1912 (13?) D. About the author found the following:
Bazhin Nikolai Nikolaevich (1856 1917).
In 1872, Nikolai Bazhin entered the Academy of Arts. Among his mentors was a famous painter and teacher, MK Klodt. However, the normal course be young artists not - at the end of 1870 he was expelled from St. Petersburg in the case of the People. Classes in painting did not give up because after his return to St. Petersburg again entered the Academy of Arts. In 1882 he received the title neklassnogo artist. Since then, he lived in St. Petersburg, he wrote mostly landscapes ( "Spring Evening", "Winter Morning", "Twilight," "After the Rain," "Gray Day", "The River"), although created and pictures of everyday topics (eg "In the junk-abroad"). Was known NN Bazhin and as the author of landscapes, illustrations of "Dead Souls" NV Gogol ( "The Garden of Elijah"). Many a painter and willingly participated in exhibitions of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, as well as its southern counterpart - the Association of South Russian Artists. Creativity NN Bazhina articles in the pre-revolutionary newspapers and magazines. Do not passed his paintings and highly interested in the development of Russian art PM Tretyakov, and it was in those days, a sure sign of recognition of the skill of the artist.

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