Konstantin Makovsky (Russian Artist)
Christmas Fortune Telling, 1910
Oil on canvas
10.5 x 16in.
Konstantin Makovsky, born June 2, 1839. He attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculptor, and Architecture (1851). His specialty was Realism, Romanticism. and Academism. In 1858 Makovsky entered the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. From 1860 he participated in the exhibitions of Academia with paintings such as Curing of the Blind (1860) and Agents of the False Dmitry kill the son of Boris Godunovs (1862). From 1870 he was a founding member of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions and continued to work on paintings devoted to everyday life. He exhibited his works on both the Academia exhibitions and the Traveling Art Exhibitions of the Wanderers. In 1915 he died in Saint Petersburg at age 76.
He had once said, ”Best beauties posed to me vying with each other…I was making nice money lived with regal splendor and made a lot of paintings, decorative panels, portraits, sketches, and watercolors.”
By Ciara Bubnow