самовар

     Author: Grabar, I.E. (1871 - 1960)

 

      Title: At the Samovar  

 

      Date: 1905

 

      Media: Oil on canvas

 

      Size:  80 х 80 cm

 

      Provenance: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
 
      Accession number: # 22541

 

      Subject: Grabar - Indoor tea-drinkingSamovar- PortraitStill life Impressionism

 

 

 
 At the table covered with table-cloth is a paunchy copper samovar surrounded   by glasses, cups, and jam saucers. Sense of warmth and quiet coziness of twilight is created by punky coals in the samovar. The artist used to live for a long time at the estate of his friend N.V.Mescherin. The girl at the evening tea-drinking, his niece, is a future wife of the artist. Grabar wrote about the life style in the house," ... a samovar in Dugino has never left the table - either in the day or at night. For the night samovar has been wrapped into quilted blankets and woolen clothes in order to keep water hot till next morning".
 
 

 

 

Картина Константина Маковского Алексеич

 

Author:  Makowsky, K. E. (1859-1915)

 

Title: Alekseich

 

Date: 1881-1882

 

Media:  Oil on canvas

 

Size:  93.5 x 60 см

 

Provenance: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

 

Accession number:

 

Subject: Makowskiy - Indoor tea-drinkingSamovar- Portrait - Still lifeRealism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The man on the picture is an old servant of the artist. Image of the modest, kindhearted old man is opened up in quiet happiness, which fills his anticipation of peaceful solitary tea-drinking. Boiling samovar with a teapot cozily placed on the top, a heel of fresh bread, and a raspberry jam in a tightly wrapped glass jar, a box with tea and sugar carefully covered with a cloth – in all that there is feeling of warmth and grace so precious for an unpretentious man.

 

 

 

 

 

    Author: Kustodiev, B.K. (1878-1927)

 

    Title: The Merchant’s wife on the Balcony   

 

    Date: 1918

 

    Media: Oil on canvas

 

    Size: 120 x 120 cm

 

   Provenance: The State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia

 

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   Subject:  Kustodiev - Outdoor tea-drinkingSamovar- Merchant - Portrait - Still life  Landscape - Folk painting

 

 

 

 

 

Peace and comfort are associated with Russian tea-drinking ceremony. Expensive samovar, a teapot of highly glazed pottery, painted with gold, the same kind of cup, the table

appointments, - everything says, that on the picture is a wealthy woman. She is beautiful, pink-cheeked, and stout. She drinks tea in a merchants’ style – from the saucer. Insouciance and peace of tea-drinking time are emphasized with blue sky behind the terrace. Nothing implies that it is time of Revolution with its stormy events.

           

 

 

 

 

  Author: Petrov-Vodkin, K.S. 1878-1939

 

   Title: At the Samovar

 

   Date: 926

 

   Media: Oil on canvas

 

   Size:  81,2 x 65 cm

 

   Provenance: The State Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia

 

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   Subject: Petrov-Vodkin - Indoor tea-drinkingSamovar- FamilyPortrait - InteriorStill lifeAvant-Garde

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A family of working class becomes a purified ideal for the artist. Laborers are yesterday’s peasants. They inherited the same spirituality and combination of chastity and vitality. The artist thought about a family with his “planetary” categories. In this scene a family is a model of the universe. In the center of it there is samovar with all its symbolical connotations. China and simple glass on the tea table speak of reconciliation and co-existence of different social values.