Artist Borisov-Musatov.

Borisov-Musatov. Russian symbolist old.
Elpidiforovich Viktor Borisov-Musatov (2 (14) April 1870 - October 26 (November 8), 1905), remained in the history of Russian art of one of the most poetic and inspired painters.
His legacy - is a quiet, long, sad dream. The nature of the mid-day-evening-sleepy or tired, the heroine - whether enchanted maidens, whether for yourself pulling the thread of conspiracies between prayers landowner, or the forgotten precious doll ... or maybe it's the images of souls of long-dead beautiful ladies. And all this in an atmosphere that exudes summer scent, which you want to breathe.
The diaries Musatov has a record: "My thoughts - paint, my paints - tunes." And again: "When I was afraid of life, I rest in the Art and Music»
"Everywhere in Musatov a mirrored surface of silence storm romance," - said Andrew White. "The wafer-thin and delicate hunchback" he called Borisov-Musatov.

«Loneliness" or on the balcony. Pastel. Serpukhov Art and Historical Museum, Serpukhov

In 1873, at the age of three years with Victor Musatov the accident occurred. Playful, active boy injured his back after falling off the bench. This injury is caused by chronic inflammation of the spine. Parents painfully experienced misfortune befell him. They did everything in their power to secure his recovery. But in Moscow or St. Petersburg, where his father carried the boy could not help anything, and Victor was "a beautiful, proud vznesennoy head and crooked trunk" - in the words of one of his biographers.
"Was it painful , a small, hunchbacked man with a pointed beard, - said M. Dobuzhinskii - very elegantly dressed and wore a gold bracelet ".
" It was touching, sweet and cordial "- recalled close friends with Borisov-Musatov I. Grabar .


Spring. 1898-1901. Tempera on canvas. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg


Walk at sunset. 1903. Tempera on canvas. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg


Summer melody . 1904-1905. Thumbnail unrealized murals izh cycle times of the year. Paper, watercolor, ink, brush, pencil. Private collection


Spring Tale. 1904-1905. Thumbnail unrealized mural from the cycle times of the year. Paper, watercolor, pencil, pen, brush.


Autumn evening. 1904-1905. Thumbnail unrealized mural from the cycle times of the year. Paper, watercolor, pencil, pen, brush.


Son of a deity. 1904-1905. Thumbnail unrealized mural from the cycle times of the year. Paper, watercolor, pen, brush.


Tapestry . 1901. Tempera on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Self-portrait with his sister. 1898. Oil on canvas, tempera. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The artist was irrevocably in love with the wife of a fellow Nadezhda Stanyukovich. While accompanying her husband on the Russian-Turkish war, she worked in the hospital and suffered a deep nervous breakdown and then became ill and August 21, 1905 passed away.
«I was struck a painful, worn appearance brother - remembered his sister Elena - and indeed change in the face was very noticeable. " Musatov wants to create a picture of the "Requiem" by the deceased. September 15 he writes ME Bukiniku: "After all, for me she is not dead, because I'm an artist. No, she is now living somehow even brighter. And I will write more so that she is not dead forever, and for him [B. K. Stanyukovicha-husband and his friend dead]. "This picture - swan song Borisov-Musatov, his most perfect creation and high.


Requiem. 1905. Paper on cardboard, watercolor, black, sanguine. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
In the center, a little special - a woman in a dress that stands out for its bright whiteness, even among the other transparent garments. She abruptly turns back, breaking the smooth rhythm of the march, chaining themselves to the viewer's eye. Her features - features Nadezhda Stanyukovich. With heavy curls with a frozen look, detached from all earthly troubles, almost a shadow of a living woman.
This lovely, bright and sad image of a woman is here as a reminder of a bygone forever timeless.
Left - tall woman with bare shoulders and a fan in the lowered hands. She served as a model for the wife Musatov. The other actors play the role of indifferent spectators and fall, in fact, the psychological characteristics. They needed to create a rhythmic, decorative composition.
Well thought out and perfectly: warm colors - yellow and pink rhythmically alternated with cold - blue and blue. In the background - blue-green clumps of trees. - It is not a real park in the picture as if he gets up in the solemn memory ».
None of his works have not expressed with such force innermost feelings: the longing of the beautiful in life and the associated grief and hope.
«Requiem" was not quite finished. As well as the "Requiem" by Mozart, he became a requiem to the artist.


Emerald Necklace. 1903-1904. Oil on canvas, tempera. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
«Emerald Necklace" life is full of lust, glee. Eight women, one after the other in the park, they either are, or are going, but what stability and confidence in front of such a composition, and in paints - how much affection, harmony, peace! These paintings can be treated with an unstable psyche of modern man.


wreath of cornflowers. 1905. Sketch. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Autumn Song. 1905. Pastel on paper. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
artist looking from the high bank of the Oka on yellow birch crowns forming the right and left wings. As water reflects the cold pale gray sky. Over a wide band covered in faded blue grass bank rises forest. Clear horizontal trunks contrast with the soft flowing lines descended, as if tired of branches, creating a wonderful decorative effect. Closes composition, giving it a finish, a triangle flocks of cranes, black chain, as it were incised feather.
This is one of the last works of the artist.

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Cabbage. 1893. Sketch. Oil on canvas. Saratov State Art Museum. AN Radishcheva Saratov


May Flowers. 1894. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Walk. 1901. Tempera on cardboard. Odessa Art Museum, Odessa


motive without words. 1900. Paper on cardboard, watercolor, pastel and pencil. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Waiting for guests. 1894. Paper, ink and gouache. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Volga. Nizhny Novgorod. 1894. Gouache on paper. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


glow of sunset. 1904. Tempera on canvas. Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod


Waters. 1902. Tempera on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Round pond - and two women chatting on the shore, but the pond clearly reflected blue sky and white clouds. Water is written from a higher point, and the ladies - with the lower. Blue dress blends with the blue sky and white clouds - with a white lace cape ladies standing sideways.
«Pond" he wrote to his beloved Nadezhda Stanyukovich., And she bought it. Her praise, escaped from her breast delight at the sight of the painting "Pond" was stronger than any of the articles of critics.


Ghosts. 1903. Tempera on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

manor house and estate Zubrilovka. The former estate of Prince Golitsyn, Prozorovsky. Photo.
In 1899, the painter Viktor Borisov-Musatov wrote managing the estate NV Sokolov, a letter requesting to see an old estate. His request was granted and in 1901, the artist came to Zubrilovka. Even then homestead was in ruins, rarely visited by the then owners. In 1902 Borisov-Musatov again visited the estate with her sister Elena and artist Elena Vladimirovna Alexandrova - future wife. His sister Helen recalled: Deep autumn in Zubrilovka also fascinated by his brother faded tones of colors dying nature ... Near the house where he wrote us in sunny summer days, the paint has been sad, gray, all in harmony with the dark autumn sky covered with clouds. It seemed that the house stood with the surrounding greenery fading. This mood gave his brother a painting - "Ghosts" ... He explained to us personally, as I remember, as if with the end of life of the deserted manor house - "all rooted in the past," as they are depicted in the foreground picture retreating ghostly figures of women. These two trips to the estate is reflected in the works "Tapestry" (1901), "A Walk in the Sunset" (1903), "Ghosts" (1903), "The Dream of the deity» (1904-05).


Homestead. 1902. Oil on canvas. Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. FA Kovalenko, Krasnodar


On the terrace . 1903.


Lady in Blue. 1902. Paper on canvas, watercolor, pastels. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Seated Woman. 1899. Study for Harmony. Voronezh Regional Art Museum. INKramskoy, Voronezh


window. 1886. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


lady in the garden. 1903.


Pond. Beginning of the 1900s. Study for Daphnis and Chloe. Watercolor on paper


On the balcony in Tarus. 1905.


hazel bush. 1905. Watercolor and pastel. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
This is one of the last works of the artist

Early autumn love dying.
Secretly love gold colors
early Autumn, love dying. < br /> The branches are cut by, the mall is empty,
In the fading blue, stainless, melting
strange silence, beauty, purity ...

poem Valery Bryusov "Early Autumn," written a month before the landscape Musatov


"Lady in Blue" 1904


A girl in a necklace. 1904. Study for the Emerald Necklace. Oil on canvas. Private collection


Woman in Blue. 1905. Pastel on paper. National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan


Portrait of a Lady. 1902. Oil on canvas, watercolor, pastel and gouache. Private collection


Autumn motive. 1901. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Russian Art, Kiev


Cavalier, reading poetry. 1899. Study for Harmony. Tempera on canvas. Saratov State Art Museum. AN Radishcheva Saratov


Terrace. 1903. Private collection


boy with a dog. 1895. Oil on canvas. Kharkiv State Art Museum, Kharkov


At the river . 1894. Sketch. Oil on canvas. Kursk State Picture Gallery. AADeineka, Kursk


tree. Sketch. Oil on canvas. Saratov State Art Museum. AN Radishcheva Saratov


sleeping girl. 1890. Paper color, pastel. Astrakhan Region Art Gallery. BM Kustodiev, Astrakhan


Lady in tapestry (portrait H . Yu.Stanyukovich). 1903. Pastel on paper. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Portrait of Nadezhda Stanyukovich . 1903. Study for the unfinished portrait of the belt. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Girl with agave. 1897. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Harmony. 1900. Tempera on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Girl in Yellow Shawl . 1903-1904. Study for the Emerald Necklace. Oil on canvas. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


Autumn motive. 1899. Oil on canvas. Saratov State Art Museum. AN Radishcheva Saratov


embroidering. 1901. Tempera on canvas. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg


Cabbage and willows. 1894. Oil on canvas on cardboard, oil. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow


"Jingle Bells" 1903

Borisov-Musatov, fotografieey carried away, he shot portrait sketches. Models are often chosen by relatives of the artist: Sister Elena, girl friends, and their friends. Part of Photo Works served as the basis for paintings and drawings.
Lucky was an artist a day when his friend gave him a box of vintage dresses, skirts with crinolines, shawls, lace, etc. It has become easier to realize their visions, dreams of the past.
Borisov-Musatov, like Block, felt not only time, but also its future cruelty, aggressiveness. He wanted to live in that expensive - images of Turgenev's girls, Tatiana Larina, he dreamed of them, they were his heroines. And the action he endured not only in the XIX century, but farther inland, to the XVIII century.





EV Alexandrov, EE Musatov, S. Steblova, TS Shemshurina against the estate Vvedenskoe. Photo.


Photo sketch for the painting "Sleeping Girl" . Pictured: YY Dombrovskaya.


Photo sketch for the painting "Solitude". Pictured: EE Musatov, sister of the artist.


Photo sketch for the painting " Portrait of a sister. Girl with roses. " Pictured: EE Musatov.


Holiday green masquerade. Photo.

Holiday green masquerade. Picture, painted Borisov-Musatov.


Photo sketch. Pictured: YY Dombrovskaya.


Photo sketch for the painting "The Last Ray" . Pictured: YY Dombrovskaya.


unknown on the couch. Anna Ieronimovna Vorotynskaya (?) Photo.


E . E. Musatov on the terrace. Photo.


Photo sketch. In the photo: M. Yagodskaya.


E. E. Musatov in an old dress. Photo.


EE Musatov, and EV Alexandrov on the background of the pond. Photo.


Photo sketch. Pictured: NY Stanyukovich.


Model in ancient costumes. Photo.

The last months of his life, the artist spent in Tarus at the invitation of art IV Tsvetaeva, where he settled with his family on a release giving Tsvetayev "Sand".
Walking and admiring the scenery, he once said jokingly that he wanted to be buried here, on the bank of the Oka River. Who would have thought that the life of an artist suddenly breaks off in 35 years. VE Borisov - Musatov died on October 26, 1905. He was buried, as bequeathed, on the bank of the Oka, in the cemetery at the Mount of the Ascension.
In 1911, his grave was found tomb, created by his friend the famous sculptor AT Matveev and is one of the most interesting works of this master. On the pedestal of red granite in the shape of the box rests a carved figure of a boy - a teenager, a reminder of how Musatov had once tried to save the drowning child, who, despite all efforts failed to revive. At the end of the pedestal inscription "1870 - 1905", at the front pedestal inscription "Borisov - Musatov," and the image of the Orthodox cross.




Borisov-Musatov was the immediate predecessor of artists "Blue Rose", which brings together, in particular, a deep respect for its heritage.
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