Mikhail Vasilyevich
LE DANTIU
Born 1891, Chikhovo village near Tver –
died 1917,
killed on the battlefield in the World War I.
Painter,
graphic artist, theoretician of art.
Still Life with an Ashtray. Early 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 65x63 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Three Drawings on One Sheet. Early 1910s.
Graphite and color pencils on paper, 17.6x47.4 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Composition. Oriental Motif. Mid- 1910s.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 17.5x22.5 cm. Page
from album. TzGALI (Central State Archive of Literature and Art), Moscow.
Composition. A Lady and a Gentleman. Middle
1910s.
Watercolor and pencil on paper, 17.5x22.5 cm. Page
from album. TzGALI (Central State Archive of Literature and Art), Moscow.
Sketch for "A Lady in a Cafe".
Middle 1910s.
Ink, whitening and pastel on paper, 15.3x11.5 cm.
Page from album. TzGALI (Central State Archive of Literature and Art),
Moscow.
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A Lady in a Cafe. Middle 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 94x56 cm. Samara Regional Art Museum.
Futuristic Composition.
Watercolor on paper, 25.4x21.8 cm. Kara-Kalpakia Art
Museum, Nukus.
A Walk in the Park. Middle 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 80x70 cm. Fine Art Museum of
Tatarstan, Kazan.
Landscape. Middle 1910s.
Lithograph pencil on paper, 20x27 cm. Page from
album. TzGALI (Central State Archive of Literature and Art), Moscow.
Portrait. Middle 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 104x60.5 cm. Samara Regional Art
Museum.
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Portrait. Middle 1910s.
Oil on canvas, 100x72 cm. Samara Regional Art
Museum.
A Sketch for the Portrait of Maurice Fabbris. 1912.
Pencil on paper, 22.4x17.5cm. TzGALI (Central State Archive of
Literature and Art), Moscow.
Portrait of Maurice Fabbris. 1912.
Oil on canvas, 76x65 cm. Samara Regional Art Museum.
Portrait of an Actor. 1912.
Oil on canvas, 67x52 cm. Yaroslavl Regional Art
Museum.
Sazandar. 1912.
Oil on canvas, 87x106 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
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Portrait of a Man (the Artist V.Tatlin?).
1910-1911.
Oil on canvas. Samara Regional Art Museum.
A Man with a Horse. 1912.
Oil on canvas. 113x65 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
Two Figures.
Indian ink and pencil on paper, 42.2x15.4 cm.
Kara-Kalpakia Art Museum, Nukus.
Non-objective Composition. Early 1910s.
Watercolor on paper, 27x22 cm. The Russian Museum,
St.Petersburg.
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After graduating from the Technical High School in St. Petersburg (1908), Le Dantiu studied at the Academy of Arts (1909-1912), which he has left finding the art training program unsatisfactory.
Active member of Union of Youth (1910-1911) in St. Petersburg.
Was a personal friend of the brothers K. and I.Zdanevich, and after moving to Moscow (1912) he became the leader in M.Larionov followers' group (N.Goncharova, V.Tatlin, V.Bart).
In 1912-1913 lived in Geogria, where discovered Niko Pirosmani (Pirosmanashvili).
Mikhail Le Dantiu took part in exhibitions including the Union of Youth (Petersburg, 1910, 1911), “The Donkey’s Tail” (Moscow, 1912), “The Target” (Moscow, 1913), “N4. Futurists, Rayonists, Primitive” (Moscow, 1914), and post mortem his work was exhibited in the 1-st State Exhibition of local and Moscow artists (Vitebsk, 1919), the 1-st State Exhibition of Art and Science (Kazan,1920), in Berlin (1922), and the Exhibition of Newest Movements in Art (Leningrad, 1927).
The
young artist's successful career was cut short by his early death, but he
has accomplished a lot both in the practical and theoretical fields. The
artistic heritage of Le Dantiu is yet to be researched.