Born 1889, Ufa - Died 1942, Moscow
Painter, graphic artist and monumental designer.
Paintings Biography
Note: In this page we have brought only works of Nesterov's earlier period, up to 1925. His later works will be published in the relevant artistic movements as this site progresses.
Paintings:
The Youth of St. Sergiy Radonezhsky. 1897.
Oil on canvas, 247x229cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Taking the Great Monastic Vows. 1898.
Oil on canvas, 178x195.5cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
The Slain Dmitry-tzarevich (Prince Dmitry). 1899.
Oil on canvas, 195x175cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Apparition to St. Bartholomew, as a Boy. 1889-1900.
Oil on canvas, 160x211cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Death of Prince Alexandr Nevsky. 1900. Sketch
for painting of the church of Alexandr Nevsky in Ambastuman, Georgia.
Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper, 29,7x39,2cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
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St. George the Victorious. 1900. Sketch for
painting of church of Alexandr Nevsky in Ambastuman, Georgia.
Watercolor, gouache, pencil on paper, 29.7x39.2cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Thoughts. 1900.
Oil on wood board, 66 x 54 cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Silence. 1903.
Oil on canvas, 71.2x116cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Winter in a Small and Secluded Monastery. 1904.
Oil on canvas, 62x75.8cm.
The Bashkirian Art Museum, Ufa.
A Girl in a Sheepskin Coat. 1901-1905.
Study.
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Two Harmonies. 1905.
Oil on canvas, 61x74cm.
Nizhny Novgorod Fine Art Museum.
Portrait of O.M.Nesterova-Shreter (the Artist's Daughter). 1905.
Oil on canvas, 142x123cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Amazon. (Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, O.M.Nesterova-Shreter). 1906.
Oil on canvas, 175x86.5cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
A Pond. 1906.
Oil on canvas, 22.3x30.5cm.
Private collection.
Portrait of Lev Tolstoy. 1907.
Oil on canvas, 113x102cm.
Museum of L.Tolstoy, Moscow.
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Capri. Entrance to a Monastery. 1908.
Oil on canvas, 18x33cm.
Private collection.
Capri. Blossoming Almond Trees. 1908.
Oil on canvas, 22x31.5cm.
Private collection.
Portrait of E.P.Nesterova Embroidering. 1909.
Oil on canvas, 43.5x60.5cm.
Private collection.
Natasha Nesterova (On the Garden Bench). 1914.
Oil on wood board, 107x97cm.
Kiev Museum of Russian Art.
A Little Fox. 1914.
Oil on canvas, 101x127cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Aksakov's Homeland (S.Aksakov - a Russian Writer). 1914.
Oil on cardboard, 121x179cm.
The Bashkirian Art Museum, Ufa.
Sasha. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 98x79cm.
Kiev Museum of Russian Art.
Self-portrait. 1915.
Oil on wood board, 94x110cm.
The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.
Sisters. 1915.
Oil on canvas, 52x80cm.
The State Museum of Byelorussia, Minsk.
Philosophers (Portrait of P.Florensky and S.Bulgakov). 1917.
Oil on canvas, 123x125cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow.
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Archbishop (Portrait of Anthony Volynsky). 1917.
Oil on canvas, 94.4x111cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Still Waters. 1922.
Oil on canvas, 102.5x66.5cm.
The I.Brodsky Museum, St.Petersburg.
A Girl by the Pond. 1923.
Oil on canvas, 94x90cm.
Private collection.
By the Monastery Gate. 1925.
Oil on cardboard, 67.5x54.2cm.
The State Museum of Belorussia, Minsk.
Portrait of the artist Victor Vasnetzov. 1925.
Oil on canvas, 96x107cm.
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
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Biography:
Mikhail Vassilyevich Nesterov was born may 1889 in a merchant's family in Ufa.
He has studied at the MUZhVZ (Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture) under V.Perov, A.Savrassov and I.Prianishnikov (1877-1881 and 1884-1886), and at the Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg (1981-1884) under P.Tchistiakov.
Was awarded the Big Silver Medal of the Academy of Arts in 1886, and the Prize in OPKh competition in 1887 (Society for the Encouragement of the Art).
From 1889 the artist participated in exhibitions including TPKh (Fellowship of Traveling Art Exhibitions - The Wanderers), World of Art, exhibition of "36 Artists".
Was selected as member of the Academy of Arts council.
Nesterov painted portraits, landscapes, historical and genre compositions, painted church walls, worked on easel graphics and made illustrations for books and journals. Beginning from genre and historical theme, he has come to his own theme and style, orthodox-religious, and to individual manner of painting: high, poetic, decorative and symbolic.
He traveled a lot from 1899, visited Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Poland numerous times. Visited Russian North, Volga, Caucasus, Crimea.
Was awarded the rank of Honored Art Worker of RSFSR (Russian Federation) at his 80-th birthday occasion, 30-th May1942.
Mikhail Vassilyevich Nesterov died of a stroke on 18-th October 1942, in Moscow.
Note: His later works, after 1925, will be published in the relevant artistic movements as this site progresses.