Nikolai Alexandrovich Tarkhov

The family of the artist
Petit Palais, Geneva, 1989
Acquired by the previous owner from the above in 1993

Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Russian Realism - Paintings from the Twentieth Century, 31 August - 30 December 2006
Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Russian Impressionism- The Edge of Soviet Art, 14 January- 26 April 2008

The canvas has been lined. There are three small bulges one to the child's head, to the sitter's left elbow and the third to her left thigh. The paint surface is fairly clean. There is a small chip of paint loss to the impast in lower left corner. UV light reveals minor retouching along the top inner frame edge. There are some further spots of retouching to the sitter's face and to the aforementioned paint loss in the lower left corner. Some pigments flourece under UV. Held in a gold painted frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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This portrait depicts the artist's wife and son.