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 Ilya Mashkov was born in the Tsaritsyn (Volvograd) region in 1881. He studied at the Moscow college under Korovin, Sreov, Arkhipov and Pasternak, 1900-09 but he also taught at a private studio from 1905. He traveled widely visiting Turkey, Egypt, Spain, Germany, Italy and Britain. He became a portrait and still-life painter of extraordinary fluency and strength of color. He was included in museum and gallery shows all over the Soviet Union, winner of numerous prizes and a member of many Russian art organizations.
Around 1920 he was experimenting with boldly patterned paintings which showed the influence of postimpressionist and Fauve art. After the Revolution, he fell into line and began to turn out realistic still lifes which made him one of Russia's highest paid painters. His earlier canvases are carefully concealed in museum reserves. Mashkov died in 1944 and today, among the young moderns, he is held in utmost contempt.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1429-1970, edited by John Milner, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, Antiques Collectors Club 1993
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