Boris Kustodiev1878–1927Ночное
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Ночное” now? Collection: Radishchev Art Museum, Saratov. Unknown.
Saratov, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Museum text in Russian
На переднем плане на высоком берегу, справа, горит высокий костер. У костра два мальчика: один лежит на спине, второй сидит. Слева от них - спускающаяся к реке белая лошадь. Внизу, у самой реки, три лошади. На противопложном холмистом берегу зеленеет лес. Небо - светло-зеленое, желтеющее к горизонту. Высоко в небе слева три летящие утки.
Radishchev Art Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Ж-2232
In the catalog
Sources
- The State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia
- Image: Radishchev Art Museum — © Саратовский художественный музей имени А. Н. Радищева · Госкаталог музейного фонда РФ
In the life of Boris Kustodiev
The whole life1914
Gold medal at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö
Kustodiev received a gold medal at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö, Sweden.
1915
“Autumn Violins” at the Art Theatre, and nightmares
Kustodiev came to Moscow to design I. D. Surguchev's Autumn Violins at the Art Theatre already gravely ill: at night he screamed with pain, haunted by the same nightmare of black cats sinking their claws into his back and tearing his vertebrae.
1916
Surgery and paralysis: confined to a wheelchair
When the pain in his arm returned, Kustodiev underwent surgery in Petrograd: the arm was saved, but his legs began to fail. In his last years he was confined to a wheelchair and painted lying down — and it was then that he created his brightest, most joyful works.
summer 1917
A summer at the Konkala sanatorium in Vyborg
After his second operation Kustodiev spent the summer at the Konkala sanatorium in Vyborg, painting there portraits of Countess S. A. Grabowska against a pine park, of Lopatina and of Anita Budengof, the picture “On the Bridge” and the landscapes “Konkola (Finland)” and “Forest Lake at Konkola”.
1918
Decorates Petrograd for the first anniversary of October
After the Revolution Kustodiev helped decorate Petrograd for the first anniversary of the October Revolution, and drew posters, popular prints and pictures on revolutionary themes.
1918–1921
Opera designs: “The Snow Maiden”, “The Tsar's Bride”
His opera designs were a success: “The Snow Maiden” for the Bolshoi Theatre (1918, never staged), “The Tsar's Bride” at the Bolshoi Opera Theatre of the People's House (1920), and set and costume designs for Serov's “The Power of the Fiend” at the former Mariinsky Theatre (1921).
