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| Maker(s): | Maliavin, Filipp Andreevich | | Culture: | Russian (1869-1940)
| | Title: | Portrait of the Ballerina Aleksandra Balashova
| | Date Made: | 1923
| | Type: | Painting
| | Materials: | Oil on board
| | Measurements: | Frame: 24 x 27 5/8 in.; 61.0 x 70.2 cm; Board: 18 1/2 x 22 in.; 47.0 x 55.9 cm
| | Accession Number: | AC 2001.89
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937)
| | Museum Collection: | Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
While vivid, decorative colors and joyful subjects were Maliavin’s trademark, he also created fine portraits of contemporaries. The model in this portrait, Aleksandra Balashova (1887-1979), was a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow until she immigrated to Paris in 1921. Maliavin connected the elegance and sensuousness of turn-of-the-century art with blotchily applied paint and energetic brushstrokes. On his canvases, the color splotches have a powerful expressive force, a quality characteristic of the avant-garde, although the artist remained true to figurative art throughout his career.
BJ, 2010
Tags:
portraits; sitting; benches; dancers Subjects:
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