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Dimensions: 81 by 65cm., 32 by 25 1/2 in.
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Notes: PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
On the Terrace is believed to have been executed in the late 1910s or early 1920s and is a superlative example of Korovin's creative output during his last years in Russia, prior to his emigration to France in 1923. It bears close parallels to two of his 1919 works, At the Window (Tula Museum of Fine Arts) and In a Room (Ivan Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts, Voronezh), which also depict a lady in red in light-filled, familial surroundings. Korovin is rightly admired for his dazzling palette, but less often perceived are his bold experiments with perspective the depiction of light on tilted surfaces and the delicate interplay of cold and warm tones - all of which are used to great effect and with seeming effortlessness in the offered painting. Slabs of light and shade in the foreground deftly draw the viewer's attention from the chair towards the sitter, who is calmly poised in the midst of a kaleidoscope of acutely observed colours and reflections that splinter and dissolve in the background.
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