Additional information
| Artist | Terechkovitch |
|---|---|
| Country | Russian, French |
| Region | European |
ArtistTerechkovitch, Constantin "Kostia"
Artist Years1903-1978
Artist NationalityRussian, French
TitleGirl in a Flowered Hat
Yearca. 1970
MediumPrint > Color Lithography
DimensionsComposition: 23 X 18 inches
Sheet: 25 X 20 inches
Description
Original color lithograph, signed in pencil and annotated “19/100”, printed on fine-grained, cream wove paper. Fine condition. Free shipping to US address.
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NotesConstantine Tereshkovitch, called Kostia, was born on 1 May 1902 in a suburb of Moscow, and died on June 12 , 1978 in Monaco. He was naturalized a French citizen on August 2, 1943 having fought in the French Army.
Terechkovitch was brought up in the artistic and culture-surrounded environments, and was exposed to Impressionist paintings at an early age. He was determined to become a painter from early childhood. Jean-Pierre Crespelle recreates the family context in which Kostia and his older brother Sevolod were educated:
“his parents belonged to this intelligentsia of artists and intellectuals who lived in Russia as a distant colony, receiving from Europe its ideas, its snobbery, its novels and its dress”.
His father, a “renowned doctor”, ran an asylum near Moscow, his mother was the Russian translator for Stéphane Mallarmé , Paul Verlaine and José-Maria de Heredia. Family life was divided between a dacha in the countryside and an apartment in Moscow, both being places of permanent passage for writers and artists where only French was spoken.
From his childhood, Kostia kept a dazzled memory of his visits to a close relation, a very wealthy grain merchant named Sergei Shchukin, the great client of avant-garde painting merchants in Paris including: Ambroise Vollard, Berthe Weill, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
After graduating from university at the age of fifteen, his parents sent him to prepare for the fine arts in the studio of the Moscow painter Constantin Youon. He then entered, following a competition where he was awarded third prize out of five hundred candidates at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the studio of Pavel Kouznetsov. In that same year 1917 the Russian revolution broke out, disorganizing civil society. Taking this as an opportunity, he decides to leave for Paris, then the capital of the arts, which he only reached in 1920 after three years of wandering in Ukraine, the Caucasus, Persia, and Constantinople.
(source: wikipedia.org)
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