ScandinaviAntique

Description

Signed, monogram: Pavel Aleksandrovich Shillingovsky (1881 - 1942). Russian artist, master of graphics, representative of modern and neoclassical. He rarely painted with oil paints, and even more so still lifes, so this work is especially rare and valuable. For Schillingovsky, complex and rich compositions were characteristic, following the example of European masters of baroque and classicism, in which technical virtuosity was diligently emphasized. This nice still life was discovered some time ago in Finnish estate near Helsinki and we spent tons of time to identify signature. The result was pleasantly surprising! Antique oil painting on canvas, signed, framed.
Size app.: 50 x 62 cm (roughly 19.7 x 24.5 in) enclosed into frame 62 x 72.5 cm (roughly 24.5 x 28.5 in). Very Good condition, no issues, minimal wear to painting, bit damaged frame. Please study good resolution images for precise cosmetic condition. In person actual item may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2.8 kg is going to measure 4 kg packed for shipment.
P. A. Schillingovsky, born in Chisinau in the family of an artist-decorator. He studied at the Odessa Art College (1895-1900), under K.K. Kostandi, and then at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1901-1914) under D.N. Kardovsky and V.V. Mate. Lived in St. Petersburg, Russia (after 1917, Leningrad). He worked mainly in the techniques of etching, engraving on linoleum and wood, lithography. Already in his early works (etchings on the themes of the Bible, 1914) he joined the neoclassical trend within modernity, stylizing his clear in composition, retrospective-elegiac in mood things “like the old masters”. His engravings were often compared with the architectural phantasmagoria of the famous Italian engraver of the 18th century. D. - B. Piranesi. He created a number of landscape cycles in this spirit (etchings "The Balkans", 1912-1913 woodcuts "Chufut-Kale", 1924), the most significant of which is a series of woodcuts "Petersburg. city on the Neva in the spirit of the classic-baroque "landscape of ruins". His later works organically fit into the mainstream of the "return to tradition", characteristic of the art of the 1930s-1940s (cycles: "Pushkin Reserve", lithographs, 1926-1937 "Kakheti", lithographs, 1935 "Besieged city", woodcuts, 1941–1942). He acted as a portrait painter and master of the art of the book. The best example of his book design is the design of Homer's Odyssey in the spirit of ancient Greek black-figure ceramics (woodcuts, 1935). He worked a lot as a teacher - at the Academy of Arts (1921-1937). He died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad. Hewas buried in the mass grave of professors of the Academy of Arts in the Smolensk cemetery. His works are mainly represented in Russian museums (V. Surikov State Art Museum etc.) and private collections around the world.