Konstantin Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky

Family of the artist

Portraits feature prominently in Rozhdestvensky’s work from the late 1930s-early 1940s. These compositions retain the artist’s employment of powerful colour combinations while introducing a more detailed and realist rendering of the sitters’ facial features. The same female sitter, depicted by the artist from a different angle, yet wearing the same headscarf, features in another portrait dated 1941, allowing to date the present work to the same year.