Horsewoman is a painting by Russian painter Rudolf Frentz (Russian: Рудольф Рудольфович Френц) (1888-1956). The picture is a portrait of an equestrian of the artist's wife Catherine Anisimovna Stulovskaya (née Frentz).
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| Artist | Rudolf R. Frentz |
| Year | 1925 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 89 cm × 89 cm (35 in × 35 in) |
| Location | private collection, Russia |
History
editPainted about 1925, the portrait represents a young woman astride on a horse in a suit for riding. In a picturesque and composition relation a portrait exudes between works of artist of 1920th and does not have analogues in collections of the largest Russian Art museums. A portrait is an extraordinarily rare for the soviet painting genre of woman's equestrian portrait.
Horsewoman was first showed on the personal exhibition of Rudolf Frentz in 1928 in Leningrad.[1] In 1970 after a long interruption a portrait was again demonstrated in Leningrad on the exhibition of works of Rudolf Frentz in the Leningrad Union of Artists.[2] In 2007 the painting «Horsewoman» was reproduced and described among 350 art works by Leningrad artists in the book «Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School»,[3] published in Russian and English.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Выставка художника Р. Р. Френца. Апрель-май. Каталог. Л., Община художников, 1928.
- ^ Рудольф Рудольфович Френц. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970. С.10.
- ^ Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – P.10, 342, 346, 352-353, 372. ISBN 5-901724-21-6, ISBN 978-5-901724-21-7.
Sources
edit- Выставка художника Р. Р. Френца. Апрель-май. Каталог. Л., Община художников, 1928.
- Рудольф Рудольфович Френц. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1970. С.10.
- Изобразительное искусство Ленинграда. Каталог выставки. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1976. С.33.
- Рудольф Френц. СПб., Государственный Русский музей, 2005. ISBN 5-93332-186-9.
- Sergei Ivanov. Unknown socialist realism. The Leningrad school. Saint-Petersburg, NP—Print, 2007. P.10, 342, 346, 352–353, 372.
- Alexandra Demberger. Damen hoch zu Ross: Vom königlichen Herrscherportrait zum bürgerlichen Adelsportrait. Regensburg, Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 2018.