Лето

1908 · Painting · 54 × 65 cm

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Where is “Лето” now? Collection: Kozmodemyansk Museum Complex, Kozmodemyansk. Unknown.

Kozmodemyansk, Russia

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

Museum text in Russian

Летний пейзаж. Солнечный день. На переднем плане речка, деревья, мостик со скульптурами. Вдали видны горы.

Kozmodemyansk Museum Complex

The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
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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.