February azure
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow, Russia
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the painting
February Azure (Russian: Февральская лазурь, romanized: Fevral'skaya lazur'), also known as February Blue, is a landscape painting by Russian Post-Impressionist painter Igor Grabar. Having been inspired by wintry scenery with vibrant and diverse colours near the Pakhra river in Moscow in February 1904, Grabar completed the painting after working for two consecutive weeks in situ under an umbrella, in a trench he had dug in the snow.
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February Azure was presented to the public at the second exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists which opened in Saint Petersburg in 1904. The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow purchased the painting from Grabar in 1905 after a unanimous decision of the museum's board of directors. Grabar considered February Azure a sum of several separate, lengthy observations—in a sense, a synthesis of them—and a revolutionary work that opened up a path Russian art had not explored until then.
Particulars
- Accession number
- 3729
Sources
- Tretyakov Gallery: the museum's own open data · fetched 4 days ago
- Image: Tretyakov Gallery — Museum open access