Painting "Still life with jug and onions"
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3,500.00 EUR
Artist/Maker: Kuni Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich
Artist/Maker Dates: 1897 - 1972
Place of Production: Belarus (Russian Empire), Vitebsk
Date of Production: 1916
Materials: canvas, oil
Width: 43.0 cm.
Height: 49.0 cm.
Condition:
Condition notes: Minor restoration
Description
A Russian Avant-Garde artist, graphic designer, sculptor, and renowned stage performer. Born in Vitebsk, his artistic career perfectly illustrates the evolution of the "Vitebsk School": from academic realism to the radical experiments of the Avant-Garde.
In the 1910s, Kunin received his initial professional training at the private School of Drawing and Painting run by Yudel Pen. His early works from this period (circa 1916) are executed in a realistic manner, characterized by a deep attention to nature and the materiality of objects.
Following the revolution, in 1919, Kunin enrolled in the Vitebsk People's Art School, where he studied under Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich. He was an active member of the UNOVIS group ("Affirmers of the New Art"). However, unlike many of his peers, he did not abandon figurative painting, seeking instead to synthesize Suprematism with the objective world.
In the 1920s, he continued his studies at VKhUTEMAS in Moscow under Robert Falk. Later in life, utilizing his phenomenal psychological abilities, he achieved fame as a mentalist performer under the stage name "Mikhail Kuni," elevating psychological experiments to the level of fine art.
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