Images Felix Yusupov - Rasputin's murderer

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Pictures of Felix Yusupov (1887-1967) - Killer Grigori Rasputin - exhibited in a Paris gallery in st. Seine: «L'arc en Seine» (31, rue de Seine) in the 6 th arrondissement of Paris, before the end of June. For many, the exhibit was a complete surprise! These figures speak for themselves (is not it?), Which is weird. Named: "Desire". "Curiosity". "Phlegm". "Indifference" ...

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"In those years, I suddenly felt an irresistible draw, - subsequently remembered Yusupov - Give painting with fervor. Chained to the table, just magical power ... Like an evil force, resettled in me, owned by my hand. As if someone had painted for me. "
He draws steadily for several weeks. Then stop drawing forever. These drawings - ink and watercolor - was made only 15. All of them represent an allegorical personification of base passions, vices.

In the Middle Ages said: call the devil - then get rid of it. It seemed as if Felix is trying to rid himself, spontaneously creating a host of anything not like strange spawn of their own obsessions. In this mad carnival of people ripped off the mask, revealing the mask.
... Monster with a rat nose, flabby cheeks, lovingly adorned with bristles, - "Indifference".
... Vampire lustful mouth-sucker - "Desire".
... Insatiable eyes, nose, like flies proboscis - "Curiosity".
... "Trick": bulldog mug with cunning swollen - though he had just fitted Satan himself!
The latter figure is directly named "The Devil". The prince of this world at Yusupova resembles a portrait of a hated old man. In the Paris gallery he submitted. And thank God!

Let's be frank: Felix Yusupov - not a primary artist. This mannerist - not purposeful artist, as Shemyakin, and, of course, not a seer, as Bosch.
But an evil magic mirror images of Felix Yusupov and correctly reflects the horror of our time: the vision of universal and complete destruction under the weight of vulgarity - the future of Ham ", which Prophesy Soloviev ...
You long to look into these characters from the bad dream, to invent different interpretations - each has a right to exist. Grotesque not be a literal interpretation, it creates a special world, open only intuitive perception.

Perhaps Felix Yusupov realized: the evil wrought by them in pride above all they were created over yourself.
Cyrus Sapgir