Denisov Vasily Ivanovich (1862-1922)
The demon. The 1910s. Paper, gouache, watercolor ...

The demon. The 1910s. Paper, gouache, watercolor, silver paint, varnish. 24 x 29.5 cm.

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THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE BACK: "Demon Op. Lermontov // According to Lermontov's essay // The demon according to Lermontov's composition." Owner's inscriptions: "/60,000 // Denisov Vasily Ivanovich (1862 - 1922 2.) || 1900s gouache, silver paint, varnish // 24 x 29.7". Two seals on the back: "The collection of A. and A. Zavolokins".

Vasily Ivanovich Denisov (1862-1922). Painter, theater artist. He studied at the Warsaw Institute of Music. In 1895 he began to paint. In Moscow, his teachers were V.A. Serov and K.A. Korovin, in whose workshop he worked in 1897-1898. He has been an active participant in exhibitions since 1896 (MOLKH, Mir Iskusstvo, etc.). He is the author of landscapes, decorative panels and symbolic and fantastic compositions. In 1912, he traveled to the East, wrote many sketches. In 1907, at the V.F. Komissarzhevskaya Theater, he designed the performances "Peleas and Melisande" by M. Maeterlinck and "Comedy of Love" by G. Ibsen. In 1913, at the Musical Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, he worked on the design of the opera Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky and Sadko by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Personal exhibitions of works by V.V. Denisov took place in Moscow (1912, 1916), in Petrograd (1915), in Paris (1906). The works are in the State Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Leningrad Theater Museum, the V.D. Polenov Estate Museum in the Tula region, and the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum.

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