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Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

On February 14, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, february 23, Russian

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, Russian artist, February 23, 1879 - May 15, 1935

Malevich, 1925

Self-Portrait, 1933

Oil on canvas, 25.9 x 28.7 in //

Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Bather, 1911

Gouache on paper, 41.3 x 27.1 in //

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Landscape, 1911

Gouache on paper laid down on board, 41.75 x 41.75 in //

Private collection

Bureau and Room, 1913

Oil on canvas, 31.2 × 31.2 in //

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Suprematism. Abstract Composition, 1915

Oil on canvas, 29.9 x 29.1 in //

Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Landscape near Kyiv, c 1929–30

19 x 25 in //

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Automobile and Lady – Color Masses in the 4th Dimension, 1915

Oil on canvas, 18.8 x 22.4 in //

MOMus Modern, Thessaloniki, Greece

Red Cavalry Riding, between 1928 and 1932

Oil on canvas, 35.8 x 55.1 in //

Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Man in Suprematic Landscape, 1930/31

Oil on canvas, 38.6 x 30.7 in //

Albertina, Vienna

Girl with a Comb in her Hair, 1933

Oil on canvas, 13.9 x 12.2 in //

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Winter Landscape, after 1927

Oil on canvas, 19 x 21.2 in //

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Woman with a Rake, 1928

Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 29.5 in //

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Valentin Serov

On January 2, 2026 - 19th Century, 20th Century, january 19, Russian

Valentin Serov, Russian artist, January 19, 1865 - December 5, 1911

Valentin Serov, between 1901 and 1902

Portrait of Maria Yermolova, 1905 Oil on canvas, 88.1 x 47.2 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Maria Akimova, 1908 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 24.4 in // National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Odysseus and Nausicaa, 1910 Gouache on cardboard, 32.8 × 39.9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Valentin Serov, Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Dancer and Choreographer Ida Rubinstein, 1910 Tempera and charcoal on canvas, 57.8 x 91.7 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Rape of Europa, 1910 Oil on canvas, 27.9 x 38.8 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Ivan Morozov, 1910 Tempera on board, 11.6 x 9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Henriette Girshman, 1907 Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Sasha and Yura Serov, 1899 Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Girl With Peaches, 1887 Oil on canvas, 35.8 × 33.4 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Iphigenia in Tauris, presumably 1893 Oil on canvas, 37 x 52.7 in // Tatarstan State Museum of Fine Arts, Kazan

Portrait of the Composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898 Oil on canvas, 37 x 43.7 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Bathing of a Horse, 1905 Oil on canvas, 28.3 x 38.9 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Wassily Kandinsky

On August 17, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, december 4, Russian

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Russian painter, December 4, 1866-December 13, 1944

Adolf Elnain, Vassily Kandinsky, 1925

The Rider (Lyrical), 1911 Oil on canvas, 37 x 51.1 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in Lenbachhaus, Munich

Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 9.4 x 12.4 in // Lenbachhaus, Munich

Yellow-Red-Blue, 1925 Oil on canvas, 50.3 x 79.3 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Small Worlds I, 1922 Lithograph, 9 3/4 x 8 9/16 in // National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen

On White II, 1923 Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 38.5 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Circles in a Circle, 1923 Oil on canvas, 38.8 x 37.6 in // Philadelphia Art Museum

Several Circles Oil on canvas, 55.1 x 55.1 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Inner Alliance, 1929 Oil on canvas, 29.9 x 25.9 in // Albertina, Vienna

Brown with Supplement, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 39.3 in // Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Composition 9, 1936 Oil on canvas, 44.6 x 76.7 in // National Museum of Modern Art, Paris

Composition X, 1939 Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 76.7 in // Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Various Actions, 1941 Oil and enamel on canvas, 35 1/8 x 45 3/4 in // Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Small Dream In Red, 1925 Oil on cardboard, 14 × 16.2 in // Bern Kunstmuseum

Untitled, 1941 Gouache, 18.9 × 12.3 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

In Grey, 1919 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 69.3 in // Musee National Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Composition VIII, 1923 Oil on canvas, 55.1 × 79.1 in // The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Study for "Circles on Black," 1921 Watercolor on paper, 10 x 10 in

Succession, 1935 Oil on canvas, 31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in // Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Small worlds II, 1922 Four-color lithograph, 14 x 11 inches // Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

Blue segment, 1921 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Painting with White Border, 1913 Oil on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Composition VII, 1913 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 118.1 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Moonlight Night, 1907 Colour lithograph, 8.4 × 7.5 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Floating Figure, 1942 Oil on wood, 10.2 x 7.9 in Musée Zervos (Maison Romain Rolland), Vézelay, France

Isaac Levitan

On July 6, 2025 - 19th Century, august 30, Russian

Isaac Levitan, Russian painter, August 30, 1860-August 4, 1900

Isaac Levitan by Valentin Serov, 1893

Sofia Kuvshinnikova, 1888

Birch grove, from 1885 until 1889 Oil painting, 11.2 x 19.6 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Evening Bells Ringing, 1892 Oil on canvas, 34.2 x 42.3 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Autumn, 1896 Watercolor on paper Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin

On July 5, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, august 16, Russian

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin, Russian illustrator and stage designer, August 16, 1876 – February 7 1942

Boris Kustodiev , Portrait of Ivan Bilibin, 1901

Koschei the Deathless (from Marya Morevna, 1900)

Illustration for the Epic "Volga", 1903 Lithograph

Illustration for "Wassilissa the Beautiful", 1899

Sketch for the Opera, The Golden Cockerel, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, 1908

Marc Chagall

On June 29, 2025 - 20th Century, july 6, Russian

Marc Chagall, Russian painter, July 6, 1887 - March 28, 1985

Cow with a Parasol, 1946 Oil on canvas, 32 x 42 1/2 in // Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Dream, 1939 Pastel with gouache on paper Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts

The Red Rooster, 1940 Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 36 in // Cincinnati Art Museum

The Painter to the Moon Gouache on paper, 12.6 x 11.8 in // Private Collection

The Poet Reclining, 1915 Oil on cardboard, 30.3 x 30.5 in // Tate Modern, London

Blue Lovers, 1914 Oil on cardboard, 19.3 x 17.3 in // Private Collection

Marc Chagall, Self Portrait with Brushes, 1909

Self Portrait with Brushes, 1909 by Marc Chagall

The Drunkard, 1912 Oil on canvas 33.5 x 45.3 in // Private collection

The Cattle Dealer, 1912 Oil on canvas, 38.2 x 79.7 in // Kunstmuseum Basel

Still-Life, 1912 Oil on canvas Private collection

Ivan Kramskoi

On March 20, 2025 - 19th Century, june 8, Russian

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi, Russian painter, June 8, 1837 – April 6, 1887

Self-Portrait, 1857 Oil on canvas, 20.7 in x 17.3 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of the Painter Ivan Shishkin, 1880 Oil on canvas, 45.4 in x 32.8 in State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Pavel Tretyakov, 1876 Oil on canvas, 23.2 in x 19.2 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Ivan Kramskoi, Portrait of S.N. Kramskaya, the Artist's Wife and S.I. Kramskaya, Daughter of the Artist, 1875 Oil on Canvas, 37 x 50 in Voronezh Regional Art Museum, Russia

Portrait of S.N. Kramskaya, the Artist's Wife and S.I. Kramskaya, Daughter of the Artist, 1875 Oil on Canvas, 37 x 50 in Voronezh Regional Art Museum, Russia

Ilya Repin

On March 20, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, august 5, Russian

Ilya Repin, Russian painter, August 5, 1844 – September 29, 1930

Self-portrait, 1887 Oil on canvas, 28.6 in x 23.8 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of V. E. Repin, the Artist's Brother, 1867 Oil on canvas, 33 3/4 x 26 3/4 ins State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

On the Trail, 1881 Oil on canvas, 13.3 in x 10.2 in Samara Art Museum

Ilya Repin, Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's Duel, 1899 Watercolor, white lead and India ink on paper, 11.5 in x 15.4 in Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Eugene Onegin and Vladimir Lensky's Duel, 1899 Watercolor, white lead and India ink on paper, 11.5 in x 15.4 in Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Portrait of Polixena Stasova, 1879 Oil on canvas, 75 x 66 cm The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Makar Simak (Plastun), 1888 Watercolor on Paper, 11.4 x 8.25 State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Leo Tolstoy Working at the Round Table, 1891 Engraving, 4.5 x 6 in The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts, St Petersburg

Gogol Burning the Manuscript of the Second Part of "Dead Souls", 1909 Oil on canvas, 31.8 x 52.9 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Surgeon Evgueni Vasilievich Pavlov in the Operating Theater, 1888 Oil on canvas, 10.9 x 15.8 in // Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Slavic Composers, 1872 Oil on canvas, 77.9 in x 12.8 ft // Moscow Conservatory

Turf Bench, 1876 Oil on canvas, 14.1 x 21.8 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Demonstration on October 17, 1905, 1907, 1911 (modified) Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 10.5 ft // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmet IV, between 1878 and 1891 Oil on canvas, 85.4 x 11.8 ft // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Portrait of Countess Natalia Petrowna Golovina, 1896 Oil on canvas, 35.4 x 23.2 in // Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Ilya Repin, Portrait of Composer Cesar Antonovich Cui, 1890 Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 38.5 in Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of Composer Cesar Antonovich Cui, 1890 Oil on canvas, 49.2 x 38.5 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of actress Eleonora Duse, 1891 Charcoal on canvas, 42.5 × 54.7 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Saint Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt, 1887 Graphite pencil and ivory black on paper, 11.7 × 16.1 in // The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Portrait of painter Elizabeta Nikolayevna Zvantseva, 1889 Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in // Ateneum, Helsinki

Dragonfly, Portrait of the Painter's Daughter, 1884 Oil on canvas, 43.7 x 33.2 in // The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin

On March 20, 2025 - 19th Century, october 26, Russian

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter, October 26, 1842 – April 13, 1904

A photograph of Vasili Vereshchagin.

Apotheosis of war, Turkestan Series, 1871 Oil on canvas, 50 in x 77.5 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A Chinese, 1873 Oil on canvas, 13 x 8.25 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Dervishes in Festive Attire, Turkestan Series, 1869-1870 Oil on canvas, 28.1 in x 18.5 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Dervishes in Festive Attire, Turkestan Series, 1869-1870 Oil on canvas, 28.1 in x 18.5 in State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel

On March 17, 2025 - 19th Century, 20th Century, march 17, Russian

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, Russian painter, March 17, [O.S. March 5] 1856 – April 14, [O.S. April 1] 1910

Vrubel, Portrait Photo 1900

Vrubel English: "Anna Karenina meets with her son." An illustration for Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina Ink and sepia on brown paper Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

English: "Anna Karenina meets with her son." An illustration for Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina Ink and sepia on brown paper Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Study by Mikhail Vrubel - Woman's Head, 1885 17 x 13 in Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Demon. Ceramics 1894 Russian Museum, St Petersburg

Morning, 1897 Oil on canvas, 103 x 176 in State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

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