Portrait of Daniel Harms

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).

The image of a close friend, a clever man, a great joker and a talented poet is one of the paintings of the series “Tragic Talents of Russia”, in which A. Poret included portraits of V. Meyerhold and P. Filonov, V. Khlebnikov and S. Mikhoels, other creators with a tragic fate. The poet, who, according to the artist, helped her discover “fun, game and humor”, who considered her his faithful partner, is depicted in close-up and very realistic. A. Poret described his appearance in her memoirs: “blue eyes and brown hair smoothly combed back. He liked to frown and had a deep wrinkle between his eyebrows. The permanent facility of his face was a pipe. He wore a high starched collar and a plastron tie with a horseshoe pin.