Maliavin, filipp andreevich
culture: russian (1869-1940)
title: portrait of the prima ballerina aleksandra balashova
date made: 1923
type: painting
materials: oil on board
measurements: frame: 24 x 27 5/8 in.;61. 0 x 70. 2 cm; board: 18 1/2 x 22 in.;47. 0 x 55. 9 cm
accession number: ac 2001. 89
credit line: gift of thomas p. Whitney (class of 1937)
label text:
while vivid, decorative colors and joyful subjects were maliavin’s trademark, he also created fine portraits of contemporaries. The model in this portrait, aleksandra balashova, was a principal dancer at the bolshoi theatre in moscow until she immigrated to paris in 1921. Maliavin connected the elegance and sensuousness of turn-of-the-century art with blotchily applied paint and energetic brushstrokes. On his canvases, the color splotches have a powerful expressive force, a quality characteristic of the avant-garde, although the artist remained true to figurative art throughout his career. Bj, 2010. Date: 1923.
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