The Guitar

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: private collection.

The bright canvas in the style of cubism meets all its basic tenets. It was not for nothing that Yermylov visited the house of Serhei Shukin in Moscow, copied paintings of Pablo Picasso and other avant-garde artists there. The well-thought-out composition of the still life and its well-balanced colour harmony emphasize the shape of the object cut into segments but quite recognizable. There is no separate background in the picture – the geometric volumetric figures succinctly merge, filling all the space and taking the viewer’s gaze into the depth of the conditional room. In 1920, the artist repeated the plot (the painting is in the Kyiv Museum of Russian Art); in 1924, he created a relief with the same name.