Barber shop

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Collection of the Center G. Pompidou, Paris (France).

Briefly about the painting:

This work is a part of the Russian period, a shorter period of the creative career of Pougny. The canvas is characterized by interlacing planes in the range of gray and brown colors and clear forms with sharp outlines, as if the author adds a personal recurring nuance of blues to the work. The tribute to the style of avant-gardists of this period was the inclusion of typographic text in the composition of the painting. On a large white square, which seems to go beyond the picture, a text is inscribed, which is a poem of Mayakovsky, with whom the artist was friends.