Valentin Serov1865–1911Пропилеи
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Where is “Пропилеи” now? Collection: State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg. Unknown.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Museum text in Russian
Справа внизу печатка: ВС ; справа вверху авторская надпись: Пропилеи.
State Russian Museum
Details
- Accession number
- Р-13435
In the catalog
Sources
- State Russian Museum
- Image: State Russian Museum — © State Russian Museum
In the life of Valentin Serov
The whole life1878–1911 · Workplace
Moscow
1897–1909
Employed by: Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
January 1905
Leaves the Academy after “Bloody Sunday”
Because of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich’s role in the events of “Bloody Sunday”, Serov left the Academy of Arts in January 1905; the Grand Duke was its president. Under the impression of those events he painted “Brave Little Soldiers…” and “The Dispersal of a Demonstration by Cossacks in 1905”.
1906
19 works at the Russian exhibition of the Salon d’Automne
In 1906 the exhibition of Russian art that Diaghilev organised within the Salon d’Automne in Paris showed 19 works by Serov; earlier in the year he had taken part in the exhibition of members of the former “World of Art”.
1907
Travel: Greece
1909
Quits the school in protest over Golubkina
In 1909 Serov left the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in protest at the refusal to reinstate A. P. Golubkina, who had previously studied there.
