Background

Pyotr Konchalovsky was born in the village of Slavianka, Kharkov gubernia (currently Ukraine) on 21 February 1876. His father was an art publisher. Later, Pyotr married a daughter of Vasily Surikov, who always praised the art of his son-in-law.

Education

During his gymnasium years Konchalovsky attended classes of Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1896-1898 he traveled to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian.

Career

In 1889, the Konchalovskys moved to Moscow and their house became a part of the Moscow art scene of the 1890s. Their house was often visited by Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Vasily Surikov. In 1899, he returned to Russia and entered the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint St. Petersburg, graduating in 1907.

At the Academy, he studied under Savinsky, Zaleman and Kovalevsky.

Since 1909, he exhibited frequently, participating in the Golden Fleece, Fraternity, Mir Iskusstva, and New Society of Artists. Beginning in 1918 he taught art

In 1922, he had his first solo exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery. During that period, he mostly drew still lifes and landscapes.

His paintings—as of all other Jacks of Diamond—were strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne.

Pyotr Konchalovsky was a very prolific painter, and is known to have created more than five thousand works. Many of his descendants were people in the world of art They have two sons: Andrei Konchalovsky is a film writer, director and a painter, whose son Egor is also a notable film director

Achievements

• Nikita Mikhalkov is also a movie director who won the 1994 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for Burnt by the Sun.

Works

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  • Portrait of Dolgintsev

  • Bova the prince'. Sketch of a picture.

  • Still Life. Fruits.

  • Still life on the octagonal table

  • Spanish woman

  • Arkhangelsk. Ships in port.

  • Portrait of the Painter, G. B. Yakulov

  • Family Portrait (Siena)

  • Piazza della Signoria in Siena

  • Still Life with Begonia

  • Siena

  • Female portrait (Voronova)

  • Portrait of P. Denike (Yuriev)and A. Pokrovsky

  • Grenada

  • Self-portrait

  • Portrait of Yuri Petrovich Yuriev

  • Costume design for the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Don Giovanni'

  • Spanish landscape. Palm.

  • House in Abramtsevo

  • A house in Belkino

  • Near Siena

  • Cassis

  • Portrait of actress Vizarova

  • Portrait of Sofia Petrovna Konchalovskaya

  • Still Life. Tray and vegetables.

  • Siena. The square.

  • The head of Frenchwoman

  • Paris. Innkeeper.

  • Bullfight. Study.

  • Still Life. Box of cigars.

  • Breads and the tray

  • Two guitarists and singer

  • Portrait of the artist's wife, Olga Konchalovskaya. Under the umbrella in the garden.

  • Still Life with a red tray

  • Bova the prince'. Sketch of a carpet.

  • Portrait of M. P. Konchalovsky in naval uniform

  • Still Life. Peaches.

  • Portrait of O. Konchalovskaya

  • Still Life. Crystal.

  • Crimea. Alupka.

  • The female figure

  • Still Life. Tray and green cardboard box.

  • Still Life. Begonias.

  • Apple tree in blossom

  • The Model by the stove

  • Cassis. Ships.

  • Still life

  • Portrait of Baron K. Rausch von Traubenberg

  • Cassis

  • Sleeping woman

  • San Gimignano

  • Factory in Nara

  • Portrait of Akulina Maximovna Kopaneva

  • France. Mountain Lavender.

  • Still Life with a red tray.

  • Sudak. The Valley.

  • Sketch a still life with guitar

  • Nara

  • Bullfight

  • Spain. Kaldetes. Oliva.

  • Portrait of Zinaida Kozhukhovskaya

  • Matador Manuel Gartha

  • Still Life. Beer and roach.

  • Still Life. Peaches.

  • Still Life. The stove.

  • Siberia. Taiga.

  • Portrait of the artist's brother, Maxim Petrovich, with cap

  • Still life

  • Flower-garden

  • Natasha on a chair (Portrait of N. P. Konchalovskaya in childhood)

  • Portrait of Dmitry Petrovich Konchalovsky historian, brother of the artist

  • Paris. Azaleas in a pot.

  • San - Maxim. Palma.

  • Versailles. Ivy.

  • France. Nemours.

  • The Model by the stove

  • The landscape. Coast of France.

  • Garden near Rome. Peaches in bloom.

  • Still Life. Checkers and oranges.

  • Design for the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Don Giovanni'

  • Port of Siena

  • Bullfight in Sevilla

  • City

  • A tree

  • A sketch of a female figure, seated in a chair for the portrait of actress Vizarova

  • Siena. The urban landscape.

  • Still life

  • Still Life. Fish.

  • In the studio. Family Portrait.

  • Winter. The Mill on the Ker-island.

  • Female portrait (Voronova). Study.

  • Sevilla. Matador.

  • Self-portrait in gray

  • Natasha in a chair

  • Oranges

  • Walk of gravedigger

  • Spanish woman

  • Still Life. Scales.

  • Still Life. Vegetables.

  • Still Life. Melon.

  • Belkino. Birch.

  • Cassis

  • Tulips

  • Berries and begonias

  • Cassis. Cliffs.

  • Design for the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Don Giovanni'

  • Fruit-piece

  • Bullfighting amateur

  • Family Portrait (against Chinese panel)

  • Belkino. Garden.

  • Girl from Arles

  • Cassis. Sea.

  • Still Life. Samovar.

  • Portrait of daughter

  • A man with a guitar

  • Study

  • Namur. France.

  • South of France. Palma.

  • Design for the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Don Giovanni'

  • Still Life. The guitar.

  • Fruit-piece

  • Begonias

  • Spanish boy

  • Landscape

  • Sudak. Mulberry.

  • Paris. The boy with the apple. (Portrait of Mikhail Petrovich Konchalovsky).

  • Dry paints

  • Pines

  • Siena

  • Portrait. The sketch.

  • Belkino. Birches.

  • Bridge in Nara. The wind.

  • Tea in Khotkovo

  • Landscape at Siena

  • Girl with a Fan

  • Bridge in Abramtsevo

  • Workbench

  • Room in Spain (Valencia)

  • Portrait of the Artist Vladimir Rozhdestvensky

  • Matador Manuel Gartha

  • Natasha at the window

  • Mount Cassis

  • Spanish landscape

  • Boats

  • Cassis. Boats.

  • Sketch a still life with copper jugs

  • Agave

  • Guitarist and singer

  • Still Life with Peonies in a Vase

  • Mushrooms

  • House of bullfighting amateur

  • Still Life. Lotus.

  • San Gimignano

  • Bullfight in Sevilla

  • Bread on the blue

  • Still life with violin

  • Design for the opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 'Don Giovanni'

  • Pasha with the red book (on white)

  • Siena

  • Still Life. Tashkent.

  • Still Life. Cancers.

  • Irises

  • Girl from Arles

  • Nude

  • Still Life. The palette and paint.

  • Still Life. Samovar.

  • Bread on the green

  • Still Life with a jug

  • Bullfight. Study.

  • Cassis. The ship.

  • Portrait of a historian V. S. Protopopov

  • Still life with red gladioli

  • Cassis. The view from the window.

  • Palm trees and geranium

  • Crimea. Alupka.

  • Sketch a still life with guitar

  • The city of Arles. The square.

  • Abramtsevo. Landscape with carpentry.

  • Bridge

  • Scheherazade

  • Digitalis

  • Self-portrait

  • Sienna. The urban landscape.

  • Gardener

  • Still Life. Beer and roach.

  • Versailles. Statue.

  • Belkino. Garden.

  • Flowers in a high vase.

  • Sketch of still life with bread

  • Vessels on the red tablecloth

  • Crimea

  • Portrait of S. P. Konchalovsky with her daughter

  • Still Life. Scales.

  • Pasha on flowers

  • Abramtsevo. The bridge. Drawing for the painting 'Bridge in Abramtsevo'.

  • Still Life with a Samovar

  • Siena

  • Portrait of Zinaida Konchalovskaya

  • Still Life. Sombrero.

  • Guitarist. A Sketch.

Politics

Later he started to paint portraits (often Ceremonial Portraits) that were considered as the examples of Socialist Realism style.

Membership

He was a founding member of the society Jack of Diamonds in 1909.

Connections

Spouse:

Olga Surikova

Daughter:

Natasha

Grandson:

Andron Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky

Grandson:

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov

Friend:

Robert Falk

Friend:

Aristarkh Lentulov

Friend:

Ilya Mashkov