SELF-PORTRAIT

MALIUTIN SERGEI VASILIEVICH (1859 – 1937)

He mainly painted portraits. He gained world fame thanks to the fact that in 1890 he invented, made and painted the first matryoshka doll.

SELF-PORTRAIT

In this picture, the artist poses with birch basket he made.

He began to work with wood in 1886. He made utensils, decorating them with carvings and paintings, and he restored the artistic furniture. First, he was doing it for personal use. Then his friends and acquaintances were interested in the furniture. The artist had a number of orders, and many craftsman worked as per his drawings and samples.

In Talashkino, Maliutin organizes a carpentry workshop, in which various wood products were made according to his drawings and in the Russian style. Author of carved fairy-tale house “Teremok”. V.V. Stasov admired his work in the field of applied art.

Signed with initials and dated lower right: СМ 1921.

Oil on canvas

80.5 х 59.5 cm

EXPERTISE:

Nina Lapidus – art historian, senior scientist and curator of the Russian classical paintings in the Latvian National Museum of Art (State Museum of Art of the Latvian SSR) from 1969 to 1995, member of the Artists’ Union of Latvia.

CONDITION REPORT:

The painting is in perfect condition.

Price on request.