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Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev
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Description
- Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev
- Chilean Landscape
- signed Boris Grigoriev (lower left); also inscribed Chili (on the reverse)
- pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
- 13 1/2 by 19 5/8 in.
- 34.3 by 49.8 cm
Catalogue Note
Boris Grigoriev traveled twice to South America, in 1928 and 1936. Upon arriving in Chile, the local paper announced the arrival of the ``gran pintor russo.'' Grigoriev and his wife spent a number of years living and teaching in Chile. In 1928 he exhibited at the Museo de Belles Artes in Santiago and his wife Elizabeth taught in the Department of Applied Arts at the Academy. On his second trip to South America he spent more time in Brazil and visited the Amazon, where Grigoriev executed numerous gouaches detailing the tropical flora.
When Grigoriev exhibited these South American landscapes in the Lilienfeld Galleries in New York in January 1938, they were compared with the works of Raoul Dufy. Reviewers in the U.S. amazed to see the new body of work queried, ``where is the painter of The Brothers Karamazov? Where is the dirtiness of Gorky's face? Where is the stiffness of the Faces of Russia? We cannot find them anymore, we can see a very different Grigoriev, different and new'' (L. Kamishnikov, ``Neugomonnaia dusha, Na Vistavke Khudozhnika Borisa Grigorieva,'' Novoia Russkoe Slova, 1938).
When Grigoriev exhibited these South American landscapes in the Lilienfeld Galleries in New York in January 1938, they were compared with the works of Raoul Dufy. Reviewers in the U.S. amazed to see the new body of work queried, ``where is the painter of The Brothers Karamazov? Where is the dirtiness of Gorky's face? Where is the stiffness of the Faces of Russia? We cannot find them anymore, we can see a very different Grigoriev, different and new'' (L. Kamishnikov, ``Neugomonnaia dusha, Na Vistavke Khudozhnika Borisa Grigorieva,'' Novoia Russkoe Slova, 1938).