Mikhail Vasilyevich NESTEROV
Born 1889 in Ufa -
died 1942 in Moscow.
Painter,
graphic artist and monumental designer.
Note: In this page we have brought only works of Nesterov's earlier period, up to 1925. His later works will be published in the relevant artistic movements as this site progresses.
The Youth of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky. 1897.
Oil on canvas, 247 x 229 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
The Great Taking of Monastic Vows. 1898.
Oil on canvas, 178 x 195,5 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Dmitry-tzarevich (Prince Dmitry) the Slain. 1899.
Oil on canvas, 195 x 175 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Apparition to St. Bartholomew, as a Boy .
1889-1900.
Oil on canvas, 160 x 211 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Death of Prince Alexandr Nevsky. 1900. Sketch
for painting of the church of Alexandr Nevsky in Ambastuman, Georgia.
Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper, 29,7 x 39,2
cm. The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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St. George the Victorious. 1900. Sketch for
painting of church of Alexandr Nevsky in Ambastuman, Georgia.
Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper, 29,7 x 39,2
cm. The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Thoughts. 1900.
Oil on wood board, 66 x 54 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Silence. 1903.
Oil on canvas, 71,2 x 116 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Winter in a Small and Secluded
Monastery. 1904.
Oil on canvas, 62 x 75,8 cm. The Bashkirian Art
Museum, Ufa.
A Girl in a Sheepskin Coat. 1901-1905.
Study.
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Two Harmonies. 1905
Oil on canvas, 61 x 74 cm. Nizhny Novgorod Fine Art
Museum.
Portrait of O.M.Nesterova-Shreter (the Artist's
Daughter). 1905.
Oil on canvas, 142 x 123 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Amazon. (Portrait of the Artist's
Daughter, O.M.Nesterova-Shreter). 1906.
Oil on canvas, 175 x 86,5 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
A Pond. 1906.
Oil on canvas, 22,3 x 30,5 cm. Private collection.
Portrait of Lev Tolstoy. 1907.
Oil on canvas, 113 x 102 cm. Museum of L.Tolstoy,
Moscow.
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Capri. Entrance to a Monastery. 1908.
Oil on canvas, 18 x 33 cm. Private collection.
Capri. Blossoming Almond-trees. 1908.
Oil on canvas, 22 x 31,5 cm. Private collection.
Portrait of E.P.Nesterova Embroidering. 1909.
Oil on canvas, 43,5 x 60,5. Private collection.
Natasha Nesterova (On the Garden Bench). 1914.
Oil on wood board, 107 x 97 cm. Kiev Museum of
Russian Art.
A Little Fox. 1914.
Oil on canvas, 101 x 127 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Aksakov's Homeland (S.Aksakov - a Russian Writer). 1914.
Oil on cardboard, 121 x 179 cm. The Bashkirian Art
Museum, Ufa.
Sasha. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 98 x 79 cm. Kiev Museum of Russian
Art.
Self-portrait.
1915.
Oil on wood board, 94 x 110. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Sisters. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 52 x 80 cm. The State Museum of
Byelorussia, Minsk.
Philosophers (Portrait of P.Florensky and
S.Bulgakov). 1917.
Oil on canvas, 123 x 125 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Archbishop (Portrait of Anthony Volynsky). 1917.
Oil on canvas, 94,4 x 111 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Still Waters. 1922.
Oil on canvas, 102,5 x 66,5 cm. The I.Brodsky
Museum, St.Petersburg.
A Girl by the Pond. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 94 x 90 cm. Private collection.
By the Monastery Gate. 1925.
Oil on cardboard, 67,5 x 54,2 cm. The State Museum
of Belorussia, Minsk.
Portrait of the artist Victor Vasnetzov. 1925.
Oil on canvas, 96 x 107 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Biography:Mikhail Vassilyevich Nesterov was born may 1889 in a merchant's family in Ufa.
He has studied at the MUZhVZ (Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) under V.Perov, A.Savrassov and I.Prianishnikov (1877-1881 and 1884-1886), and at the Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg (1981-1884) under P.Tchistiakov.
Was awarded the Big Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts in 1886, and the Prize in OPKh competition in 1887 (Society for the Encouragement of the Art).
From
1889 the artist participated in exhibitions including TPKh
(Fellowship of Traveling Art Exhibitions – The Wanderers), World
of Art, exhibition of “36 Artists”.
He
was a member of TPKh.
Was
elected as member of the Academy of Arts council.
Nesterov
painted portraits, landscapes, historical and genre compositions, painted
church walls, worked on easel graphics and made illustrations for books
and journals. Beginning from genre and historical theme, he has come to
his own theme and style, orthodox-religious, and to individual manner of
painting: high, poetic, decorative and symbolic.
He
traveled a lot from 1899, visited Italy, France Austria, Germany, Poland
numerous times. Visited Russian North, Volga, Caucasus, Crimea.
Was
awarded the rank of Honored Art Worker of RSFSR (Russian Federation) at
his 80-th birthday occasion, 30-th May1942.
Mikhail
Vassilyevich Nesterov died of a stroke on 18-th October 1942, in Moscow.
Note: His later works, after 1925, will be published in the relevant artistic movements as this site progresses.