Landscape

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia).

Briefly about the painting:

One of the early works, made in the style of Russian Cezannism, which George Costakis saw and bought almost by chance. Ignoring the general opinion that its author is only an “epigon of Malewicz,” he collected his works. A part of the works had to be given to the country that he left for Greece, in exchange for permission to take the other part with him. The landscape with houses is not a revelation, but fits into the general history of the formation of the Russian avant-garde. The planar composition is built on the principles of Post-impressionism: large planes of local pure color, greasy outlines, contours, and a large part of conventionality.