Born 1889, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski – Died 1970, Paris
Painter,
graphic artist, book illustrator and theatre designer.
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Spring. Lubok style (Russian traditional folk
picture). 1909-1910.
Oil on canvas, 43x73.5 cm. Private collection,
Moscow.
Dancer with a Cat. 1914.
Lead pencil on paper.
Portrait of Helena
Annenkova, the Artist's Wife. 1917.
Oil on canvas, 84x82 cm. Private collection.
A Horseman. 1917.
Indian ink, pen on paper.
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Portrait of the Photographer and Artist M. Sherling. 1918.
Oil canvas, 71.5X57.5cm. The Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg.
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Portrait of the Poet and Writer
Mikhail Kuzmin. 1919.
Watercolor, crayons, blacklead and Indian ink on
paper. 63.5X48cm. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Portrait of the Artist Alexandr Benois.
1920.
Lead pencil and ink on paper.
Portrait of the Producer and Writer Nikolai
Evreinov. 1920.
Oil canvas, 71.5X57.5cm. The Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg.
Portrait of the Poet and Writer Maxim Gorky.
1920.
Indian ink on paper.
Portrait of the Poet Anna Akhmatova. 1921.
Indian ink, pen on paper.
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Portrait of the Poet Boris Pasternak. 1921.
Indian ink, pen on paper.
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Cover for "Braga" (A Poetry
Book by Nikolai Tikhonov). 1929.
Indian ink, pen on paper.
Cover for "Bronepoyezd No14.69"
(Armored Train No14.69 by Vsevolod Ivanov). 1923.
Illustration for the Poem "Dvenadtzat"
(Twelve) by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
Illustration for the Poem "Dvenadtzat" (Twelve)
by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
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Illustration for the poem "Dvenadtzat"
(Twelve) by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
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Illustration for the Poem "Dvenadtzat"
(Twelve) by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
Illustration for poem "Dvenadtzat"
(Twelve) by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
Illustration for poem "Dvenadtzat"
(Twelve) by Alexandr Blok. 1918.
Indian ink on paper.
A Bather. 1917. Illustration
for the book "Durnaya Kompaniya" (Bad Company)
by Y.Yurkun.
Indian ink on paper.
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The Card-table. 1917.
Illustration and a tail-piece for the book "Durnaya
Kompaniya" (Bad Company) by Yu.Yurkun.
Indian ink on paper.
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Newspaper. 1917. Illustration for the
novel "Voobrazhayemyi Dom" (The Imaginary
House) by Mikhail Kuzmin.
Indian ink on paper.
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Tail-Piece. 1919.
Indian ink on paper.
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Scene of Hades. 1919. Sketch decor for "First
Distiller, or How an Imp Earned a Hunk of Bread", a comedy by Lev
Tolstoy, staged by Yuri Annenkov, Theatre Hermitage of Vsevolod
Meyerkhold, Petrograd, 1919.
Gouache, pencil on paper, 26x31.7 cm.
Sketch for decor of Uritzky Square for a mass
show "Capture of Winter Palace". 1920.
Watercolor, pencil on paper, 20.3x59.7 cm.
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Sketch for decor of Uritzky Place for mass show
"Capture of Winter Palace". 1920.
Watercolor, Indian ink on paper. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum,
Moscow.
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Annenkov was born in the family of a revolutionary Narodovoletz (a member of Narodnaya Volia, a terrorist anti Tsarist group) exiled to Siberia. In 1894 they moved to St.Petersburg.
After an external examination, he studied at the University of St.Petersburg (1908) and at the private studio of S.Seidenberg, at the studio of Y.Zionglinsky (1909-1910) and at the TzUTR (Central College of Technical Drawing, (1909-1911).
He visited Paris (1911-1913) and worked in the studios of M.Denis and F.Vallotone.
After return to Russia (1913) he joined the Avant-garde movement. Fascinated with the folk lubok (1910s), he later created collages (1915), after that turned to cubism.
From 1913 he participated in exhibitions including World of Art, Union of Youth, Berlin 1922 and others.
Member of the Union of Youth, the World of Art (1922), OST (1923).
Annenkov worked together with Nikolai Kulbin illustrating “Theatre for Myself” by N.Evreinov (Petrograd, 1911-1916) and a cover for “Love Performance” (Petrograd, 1916). Worked for journals “Satiricon”, “Theatre and Art”, “Otechestvo” (Fatherland), and for theatres. Created set designs for “Homo Sapiens” by N.Evreinov at theatre “The Curved Mirror’, worked for A.Kugel theatre, Maly and Bolshoy Drama Theatres (Petrograd), the Free Comedy (1920), MKhT (Little Art Theatre, Moscow). In the Soviet period made innovatory stages “Gaz” by G.Keiser (1920) and “The Mutiny of the Mashines” by A.Tolstoy (1924).
The artist took part in decorative design for May 1st 1918 and other mass shows.
He has taught at the GSKhM (State Free Art Workshops).
Yuri Annenkov created his own style of graphical portraits, published the books “Portraits” (with text by Y.Zamiatin, M.Kuzmin, M.Babenchikov, Petrograd, 1922) and “17 Portraits” (Paris,1926).
He illustrated books and took part in organizing the publish-house “Segodnia” (Today) in Petrograd.
The artist wrote and published “The Journal of My Meetings” (New York, 1966).
In
1924 the artist moved to Paris.
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