Country Road.
Oil on canvas (490 x 620 mm). Signed lower right. Framed. Nicolas Vasiliev was born in Moscow in 1892 and graduated from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. He studied at K. Yuon and I. Dubin's studio-school in Moscow in early 1900, then attended the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1906-1909. Vasiliev followed a somewhat peripatetic existence until his early thirties. He was active in Moscow until 1919 including a teaching appointment at Moscow Free Art Studios. From there he moved to Istanbul in 1919, then to Germany and France in 1922, and finally settling permanently in the USA in 1923. He died in Massachusetts in 1970. Contemporary artists who admired his work include Fairfield Porter and fellow émigré David Burliuk, whose portrait he painted.
Country Road.
Oil on canvas (490 x 620 mm). Signed lower right. Framed. Nicolas Vasiliev was born in Moscow in 1892 and graduated from the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. He studied at K. Yuon and I. Dubin's studio-school in Moscow in early 1900, then attended the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1906-1909. Vasiliev followed a somewhat peripatetic existence until his early thirties. He was active in Moscow until 1919 including a teaching appointment at Moscow Free Art Studios. From there he moved to Istanbul in 1919, then to Germany and France in 1922, and finally settling permanently in the USA in 1923. He died in Massachusetts in 1970. Contemporary artists who admired his work include Fairfield Porter and fellow émigré David Burliuk, whose portrait he painted.
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