Background
Ilya Mashkov was born on July 29, 1881 in cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don, Russian Empire (now Volgograd oblast, Russia).
Ilya Mashkov was born on July 29, 1881 in cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don, Russian Empire (now Volgograd oblast, Russia).
During the period from 1889 to 1892, Ilya studied in parish schools, in the village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don. Upon his arrival in Moscow in 1900, he attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where Ilya stayed until 1909.
In 1904, Ilya started to work as an art teacher and gave his private lessons until 1917. Mashkov started to exhibit at the Salon d'Automne since 1906 and at the Salon des Indépendants since 1911.
Also, in 1911, Mashkov together with Pyotr Konchalovsky, became one of the founders of "Jack of Diamonds".
In 1913, he participated at the Exposition Internationale du Cercle de l’art Moderne a Amsterdam in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In September 1918, the painter was appointed a teacher at Vkhutemas (Higher Art and Technical Studios), where he later was promoted to the post of a professor of the faculty of painting. Mashkov held the position until 1929.
Some time later, in 1924, Mashkov's works were exhibited in the United States and Venice.
During the period from 1930 till 1934, Ilya Mashkov lived in the village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don, creating paintings at the same time. In 1934, the painter left for Moscow.
During the Great Patriotic War, the painter created portraits of soldiers and workers of the First Moscow Communistic Hospital in Lefortovo.
Ilya Mashkov was mostly known as one of the founders of "Jack of Diamonds" artists' group.
In June 2013, during Russian Art Week in London, Mashkov's painting "Still life with fruit" was sold for a record $7.3 million.
The painter's works are kept at State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III in Saint Petersburg, Belarusian National Arts Museum in Minsk and others.
Still life with peacocks
Flowers
ZAGES and a statue of Lenin
Lilac
Fruit on the plate
Portrait of a Woman. Minsk
Urban Landscape
Still life with plants and fruit
Tbilisi. Maidan
Roses and carnations
Still Life. Grape, lemon, and cancer
Seated Nude
Girl on the tobacco plantations
Poppies, roses, cornflowers and other flowers in a glass vase
Cypress in the cathedral walls. Italy
Two nudes
Portrait of a Girl
Breakfast (still life)
Georgia. Kazbek (day). Georgian Military Road. Mountain and village
Still Life with Vegetables
Still Life with Loaves of Bread
Still-life with the broken pomegranate
Game, fish, pickles (Still Life with pheasant)
Still life with dahlias
Still life with fish and capercaillie
Still Life with Camellias
Raspberry
Landscape with towers
Portrait of Emma Ribarik
Apples and pomegranates
Soviet breads
Still life
Grapes
Sunbathing in the Crimea
Strawberry and white jar
Mirror and a horse skull
ZAGES. Dam on the Kura River and Highway of Georgian Military Road
Still Life with Oranges
Georgia. Kazbek. Shat-mountain and village
Still Life with crabs
Portrait of a poet
Still Life with a tray, white jug and fruit
Still life
Still Life with Fish
Moscow Food
View of Genoese fortress in Sudak
Still Life
Fruits and Tulips
Portrait of Z.D.R. (Lady in blue)
Simeiz beach
Portrait of A.B. Szymanowsky
The head of Laocoon
Still life with porcelain figures
View of Moscow. Myasnitsky district
Still Life
Bakhchisaray
Still Life
Still Life with Bottle, Jug and Fruit
Nude
St. George killing the dragon
Hi, XVII Congress of the CPSU (B)
The lady in the hat
Farmer with pumpkins
Georgia. Tbilisi. The Kura River
Crimea. Pioneer camp-resort
Still life with Samovar
Tangerines and glass
Reclining Nude
Landscape
Portrait of a lady in a chair
Motley bouquet on a dark background
Portrait of V.P. Vinogradova
Still life 'Fruits'
Park
Square in the village Mikhailovskaya
Nude
View of the valley Ararat
Gurzuf. Women's beach
Still Life of Fruit
Still life with camellia
Village Mikhailovskaya
Dulber. Sanatorium 'Krasnye Zori'
Gurzuf
Still life with fruits
The head of Laocoon in the profile
Bakhchisarai. Khan's Palace
Portrait of a Lady with Pheasants
Nude standing and resting her hands on her left shoulder
Bouquet in a glass vessel
Still Life with Female Figure
A flower in a pot and strawberries
View of Nervi
Lady with a contrabass
Self-portrait
Pitcher with Flowers
Still life with Vegetables
Portrait of a Woman
Kremlin in winter
Motley bouquet in a clay jar
Still Life with Brocade
Two nudes
Still life with a horse skull
Still life with bread and pumpkin
Still life with melons and pumpkins
Gurzuf. Views of the Chekhov's house and the beach
ZAGES
Still life with porcelain doll
Still Life. Decanter and peaches
Still Life. Fruits
Portrait of an unknown man with a flower in his buttonhole
View of Lausanne
Still Life with Peaches
Still life with green jug and the pumpkin
Crimea. Livadia
Portrait of Major-General of Medical Services A. R. Zlobin
Crimea. Park in Alupka
Cherry
Rowanberry
Courtyard in the village Mikhailovskaya
Still Life. Flowers in a Vase (with tray)
Still Life. Flowers
City in Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Neva. Islets. Rest House
September morning in Artek
Crimean landscape. Sudak
Apples and pears on white
Lemons and Helichrysum
Still Life with Cactus
Portrait of a Woman with mirror
Still life with strawberries. Cherry and blue pitcher
Fruits and Berries
View of the resort 'Red Dawns'
Reclining Nude
Urban winter landscape
Oval Still Life with White Vase and Fruits
The Model, which lies behind
Alupka. Resort Park
Roses and strawberries
Still life with wreaths, apples and plums
Eatables Moscow. Meat, poultry
Three sisters on the couch. Portrait of N. Samoilova, L. Samoilova and E. Samoilova
Still life with watermelon sliced
Nude
Russian Venus
The Novodevichy Convent
Self-portrait and a portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky
Still Life with a Samovar
Alupka. Park, cabrank
Still life
Still life with magnolias
Bouquet of flowers. Peonies, irises, lilies
Radish
Still Life with Skull
Berries on the background of a red tray
Still life with pumpkin and a pitcher
Urban Landscape
Still life with red fish
Still life with pineapples
September morning in Artek (Soloviev and artekovtsy)
Landscape
Portrait
On the beach. Gurzuf
Landscape with a pond
Portrait of an unknown
Still life with bananas
Still Life with begonias
Still life
Still Life with Flowers
Nudes in the studio
Portrait of Evguenia Kirkaldi
After the Storm
Watermelon and grapes
Still Life
Georgia. Kazbek. View of the mountain Kabardzhino and village
Georgia. Kazbek. View of the gorge Darial
Bank of the Neva. Evening
Nude
Fruits
Begonias
Portrait of the Artist A. Milman
Artek. September morning in Artek
Landscape with a house
Still life with bread and pumpkin
Seated nude, putting his hand on her thigh
Italy. Nervi. Landscape with aqueduct
Still Life with Mushrooms
Coast of the Crimea
Nude
Still Life
Still Life with Fan
Still life with pomegranates
Still life
Still Life with Grapes
Portrait of the artist's wife Maria Ivanovna Mashkova
Fruits from the agricultural exhibition
Portrait of a Boy in a Coloured Shirt
Bakhchisaray
Pioneer with a horn
Still life with pineapples
Mashkov married Sofia Stefanovna Arintsvari in 1905. The following year, the couple gave birth to their son – Valentin Ilyich Mashkov.
