Bidspirit auction | Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957). ”Panoramic

Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957). ”Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, depicting The Senate Square, the Bronze Horseman, Rostral columns and the Peter and Paul Fortress in the distance.” It dates back to 1912 Paper, color lithography Size: 59.5 x 169.5 - The lithograph ”Panoramic view of St. Petersburg..” is a rare small-print work by M.V. Dobuzhinsky. Due to the large size of the panorama, Dobuzhinsky had to make this lithograph composite, since there are no special presses for printing lithographs and lithographic stones more than one and a half meters in length. To print color lithographs, it is necessary to etch a separate stone for each color, and then combine it with the previous, underlying image, which is extremely difficult with a large format and requires the highest skill of the artist and printer. Dobuzhinsky needed about six stones to create this lithograph. This is probably why the circulation of ”Panoramic View...” was extremely small and limited. It is noteworthy that this lithograph was unknown even to specialists until recently. So in the detailed monograph by G. Chugunov, with a fairly complete catalog of the artist's works, this lithograph is not present. It is possible that this lithograph has been preserved in single copies. The color lithograph ”Panoramic view of St. Petersburg, depicting the Senate Square, the Bronze Horseman, Rostral columns and the Peter and Paul Fortress in the distance” is the rarest, unique work of M.V. Dobuzhinsky, which has museum significance. Mstislav Valerianovich Dobuzhinsky (1875-1957 - graphic artist, painter, illustrator, set designer. In 1884-1886 he studied at the drawing school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. In 1897, he attended the Central School of Technical Drawing of Baron A.L. Stieglitz, the private art school of N.D. Dmitriev-Orenburg, and then L.E. Dmitriev-Kavkazsky. In 1907, he met K.S. Stanislavsky, V.E. Meyerhold, V.F. Komissarzhevskaya, F.F. Komissarzhevsky and made his first works as a set designer. Until 1922, he worked at the Petrograd House of Art, created with his participation (together with M. Gorky), and taught at various schools, including the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1924 he received Lithuanian citizenship, and in 1926 he moved to Paris, where he lived until 1929, when he returned to Lithuania. In 1939 he left for the USA. In the last years of his life, he lived mainly in Europe: in Paris, London, Rome. Collaborated with Italian theaters. His works are kept in many museum collections and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts, and the Bakhmetevsky Archive (Columbia University, New York).