Born 1880, Moscow - Died 1912, Terioki, Finland (now St.Petersburg district).
Painter and theatre designer.
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Paintings
Blue Hortensies. 1907.
Tempera on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
The Masked Ball.1907. (Version of the picture of the same year).
Oil on canvas. 61x80 cm.
Museum of Russian Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
Dahlias. 1908.
Tempera on canvas, 107x88 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Portrait N.D. Milioti. 1908.
Tempera.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Maskers. 1908.
Watercolor on paper.
E.Gunst's collection, Moscow.
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Merry-go-round. 1908.
Tempera on cardboard, 146x193.5 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Still Life with Hydrangeas. 1910.
Oil on canvas, 72x88.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Night Festival. 1910s.
Tempera.
Kiev Museum of Russian Art.
Merry-go-round. 1911.
Tempera and oil on canvas, 82x100.7cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Flowers and China. 1912.
Tempera on canvas, 178x161 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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Still Life.
Oil on canvas.
Silina's collection, St.Petersburg.
Still Life with Vases, Artificial Flowers and Fruit. 1912.
Oil on canvas.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Tea Party. Sketch. 1912.
Tempera on cardboard, 55.8x97.8 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Theatre
The Mystic Gathering. 1909. Decor design for "Balaganchik" (The Fairground Booth) by Blok, at the V.Komissarzhevskaya Theater, St.Petersburg.
Tempera, pen and charcoal with bronze, gold and silver paint, 42x84 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Embankment in Alexandria. 1909. Decor design for the show "Caesar and Cleopatra".
Tempera on canvas.
The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Ball. 1910s.
Tempera.
Collection of V.Dudakov and M.Koshchuro, Moscow.
Dorimena. 1910s.
Gouache.
Collection of E.Gunst, Moscow.
The Ball. 1910. Sketch of the scenery and staging of A.Schnitzler's pantomime "The Scarf
of Colombine", Act 2. "House of Interludes", St.Petersburg, 1910.
Tempera on cardboard 52x70 cm.
Yerevan, Picture Gallery of Armenia.
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Death of Pierrot. 1910. Sketch of the scenery and staging for A.Schnitzler's pantomime "The Scarf of Colombine". "House of Interludes", St.Petersburg, 1910.
Tempera.
Collection of V.Dudakov and M.Koshchuro, Moscow.
Two stage costume designs. 1910.
Gouache on cardboard, 52x44 cm.
I.Brodsky Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Green Bull Hotel on the Canal Bank. 1910. Set design for M.Kuzmin's pastorale "The Dutch Girl Liza". "House of Interludes", St.Petersburg, 1910.
Tempera on cardboard, 73.5x103.5 cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Biography:
Nikolai Sapunov has studied at the MUZhVZ (Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) under Levitan (1893-1901), and at the Academy of Arts (1898-1901) under Kiseliov.
From 1918 he has participated in exhibitions including Crimson Rose, World of Art, Blue Rose, Moscow Society of Artists.
The artist has painted sets for Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow based on designs by Korovin (1901-1902), as well as for Moscow Art Theatre (from 1904), Meyerkhold studio and theatres of Vera Komissarzhevskaya and experimental Theatre of Alexandr Tairov.
Sapunov painted still life with flowers and china, and compositions on theatrical themes. His best known paintings are the magnificent stills with flowers and china.
At the end of his life he began a series of ironic genre pictures, that was left unfinished, as was his wish to go abroad.
In the summer of 1912 Nikolai Sapunov has drowned in a boating accident in Terioki, at the age of 32.