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Description: signed with initials in Cyrillic l.r.; further signed in Latin, signed and titled in Cyrillic and dated Autumn 1900 on reverse oil on canvas laid on board

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Dimensions: 37.5 by 53cm., 14 3/4 by 21in.

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, USA
Painted when the artist was only nineteen years old, Autumn Twilight is among the earliest paintings by Larionov ever to be offered at auction. According to the listing of the artist's works by Ilya Zdanevich, from 1898 to 1903 Larionov produced mainly sketches and studies - however, full scale oil paintings from this period are extremely rare. The everyday scene of a lady walking her dog in the park is characteristic of these early landscape studies and urban sketches which provide such a contrast to the more conceptual subjects of his mature years. The subject of this painting immediately recalls pictures by Renoir and in the loose brushwork one can already observe the influences of other leading Impressionists whose style Larionov adopted for the next six years and again in the 1930's (fig.1).