Philip Maliavin (1869
– 1940)
Born 1869 in village Kazanki,
Samara province – died 1940 in Nice, France.
Painter.
Portrait of the Artist Konstantin
Somov. 1895.
Oil on canvas, 169 x 93,5 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Girl with a Book.1895.
Oil on canvas, 106 x 72 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Portrait of the Artist Igor Grabar.
1895.
Oil on canvas, 131,5 x 63 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Peasant Girl Knitting a Stocking. 1895.
Oil on canvas, 141 x 81 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
Portrait of the Artist Anna
Ostroumova-Lebedeva. 1896.
Oil on canvas, 187 x 77 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Portrait of Mme Popova. 1899.
Oil on canvas, 164 x 125 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Peasant Women Dancing. 1900s.
Oil on canvas, 205 x 159 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
A Peasant Girl. 1903.
Oil on canvas, 206,3 x 115,6 cm. The Tretyakov
Gallery, Moscow.
Peasant Women. 1905.
Oil on canvas, 210 x 125 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Whirlwind. 1906.
Oil on canvas, 223 x 410 cm. The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Two Peasant Girls. 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 143 x 106 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Portrait of the Sculptor
Vladimir Beklemishev. 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 100 x 84 cm. The I.Brodsky Memorial
Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Head of Old Man. 1910s.
Pastel, tempera, charcoal on light-brown cardboard,
80,5 x 70,5 cm. The I.Brodsky Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg.
A Young Peasant Woman. Around 1912.
Pastel, tempera, charcoal on cardboard, 84,5 x 71
cm. The I.Brodsky Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg.
Verka. 1913.
Oil on canvas, 131,5 x 63 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
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A Peasant Woman.
Watercolor and crayons on paper, 82 x 56 cm. The
I.Brodsky Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg.
Coachman.
Oil on canvas, 125 x 96 cm. The Kyrgyz Museum of
Fine Arts, Bishkek.
Biography (click here for detailed biography):
Philip Maliavin was admitted as a novice to the monastery of St. Pantaleon, Mount Athos, Greece (1885-1891), worked in the icon workshop.
In 1892 the young artist has enrolled in the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg as a private student. In1894 began his training in the studio of I.Repin.
In 1895 his early works were accepted for display at exhibitions, two paintings (“Peasant Girl Knitting a Stocking” and “Girl with a Book”) were bought by P.Tretyakov for his picture gallery. Maliavin’s name was mentioned in the press.
In 895-1897 he has created a series of portraits of fellow-students, great future artists.
The artist has visited France in 1900, and his works were shown at the Paris World Fair, where he was awarded a gold medal.
Maliavin has returned to Russia, married Nathalie Novak-Savich and settled in the neighborhood of Riazan.
From 1901 he has held exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including Venice, Salon in Paris, World of Art and Union of Russian Artists, exhibitions in St.Petersburg, Riazan and Moscow.
The artist was a member of Union of Russian Artists.
He has visited Paris (1908-1910).
In 1916, for the “Whirlwind”, his greatest picture, Maliavin was awarded Academician rank by the Assembly of the Academy of Arts.
He has moved to Riazan with his family in 1918. Took an active part in the propaganda of art under the auspices of the Riazan Commissariat for Education.
Maliavin has gone to Moscow, was admitted at the Kremlin to make drawings for portrait of V.Lenin. He painted a portrait of A.Lunacharsky.
In 1922 the artist went abroad, and organized a personal traveling exhibition. His family has settled in Paris.
Maliavin has toured Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, England and Sweden (1933).
He held one-man shows in London and Stockholm in 1935, and in Nice – 1937.
Philip Maliavin died in 1940 in Nice.