Букет

1908 · Painting · 65 × 54 cm

Can I see it?

Unknown

Where is “Букет” now? Collection: National Art Museum of the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk. Unknown.

Yakutsk, Russia

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Museum text in Russian

Букет цветов в стеклянной банке. На фоне зеленая растительность.

National Art Museum of the Sakha Republic

The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
Image: National Art Museum of the Sakha Republic — © Национальный художественный музей Республики Саха · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ

1881–1923 · Workplace
Moscow
1899–1909
Designs Faust, Sadko and The Golden Cockerel
Korovin designs the productions of Faust (1899), The Little Humpbacked Horse (1901), A Life for the Tsar (1904, together with A. Vasnetsov, A. Golovin and F. Lavdovsky), Sadko (1906) and The Golden Cockerel (1909); he works for the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres and La Scala in Milan.
1910–1917
The Salammbô dacha in Gurzuf
In 1910–1917 Korovin lives for long periods and works a great deal at the Gurzuf dacha built to his own design on the site of a former tavern; he named it Salammbô in memory of his successful work on the sets for Arends’s ballet Salammbô. Repin, Surikov, Gorky, Kuprin, Mamin-Sibiryak and Chaliapin visited it; after the 1917 revolution Korovin never came to Gurzuf again.
1910–1922
Chief decorator and artist of the Moscow theatres
Korovin becomes the chief decorator and artist of the Moscow theatres, a post he holds from 1910 to 1922.