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| Keywords: Ballerina Aleksandra Balashova by F.Malyavin (1923).jpg Maliavin Filipp Andreevich Culture Russian 1869-1940 Title Portrait of the Prima Ballerina Aleksandra Balashova Date Made 1923 Type Painting Materials Oil on board Measurements Frame 24 x 27 5/8 in ; 61 0 x 70 2 cm; Board 18 1/2 x 22 in ; 47 0 x 55 9 cm Accession Number AC 2001 89 Credit Line Gift of Thomas P Whitney Class of 1937 Label Text While vivid decorative colors and joyful subjects were Maliavin ™s trademark he also created fine portraits of contemporaries The model in this portrait Aleksandra Balashova was a principal dancer at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow until she immigrated to Paris in 1921 Maliavin connected the elegance and sensuousness of turn-of-the-century art with blotchily applied paint and energetic brushstrokes On his canvases the color splotches have a powerful expressive force a quality characteristic of the avant-garde although the artist remained true to figurative art throughout his career BJ 2010 http //museums fivecolleges edu/detail php museum t objects type exact f s evic record 207 1923 F Malyavin Russian collection of Thomas P Whitney Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources Portraits by Filipp Malyavin 1920s portraits of Russia female PD-old | ||||
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