Lady with a fan

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The private collection of Konstantin Grigorishin, Moscow (Russia).

The artist created this painting when he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. When he was old, he wrote, “In 1912, I was fascinated by Picasso and till this day I am under his charm.” Probably, he painted it being impressed by one painting by the Spanish artist, which had the same title. Yermylov’s cubofuturism was not limited to the depiction of an object split into facets – the artist joined the contours of the figure and the object. They, like tectonic plates, run into each other. It makes contiguous kinks corresponding to the rhythm of the new time look sculptural. The colouring of the canvas is original: a yellow-brown gamma of a female figure filling almost the entire space of the picture in combination with a visually moving large green fan.