Boris Kustodijev

(1878–1927) rysk målare

Boris Kustodijev (1878–1927) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Boris Kustodijev belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.

Boris Kustodijev was born in Astrakhan and died in Saint Petersburg. Boris Kustodijev trained at Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Boris Kustodijev studied under Pavel Vlasov.

The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, genre art, and book illustration. The catalogue has 50 works by Boris Kustodijev with free images. The dated works span the years 1901–1950. Works by Boris Kustodijev are held by several collections, among them Tretjakovgalleriet, Ryska museet, Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, and Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Antonio Ambrogio Alciati, Léon Carré, Jean Crotti, Ödön Márffy, and Eulabee Dix.

• The avant-garde
• The Beauty
• Portrait of Chaliapin
• Russian Venus
• Merchant wife at tea by B.Kustodiev
• Bolshevik
• Shrovetide