Author:
Korovin, K. A. (1861-1932)
Title: At
the Tea-Table
Date: 1888
Media: Oil
on canvas
Size: 48,5 х 60,5 cm
Provenance:
The Museum Estate of V.D.Polenov,
Accession number:
Subject: Korovin - Outdoor
tea-drinking – Social gathering - Samovar- Group portrait - Gentry - Still life - Impressionism
This
is afternoon tea of close friends at dacha of the artist V.D. Polenov. It is a
widespread tradition of having tea at a terrace of a country house during a
summer time. The painting conveys warmth of friendship, poetry of sensible
human being, modest steady private life full of intellectual interests, and
harmony of everyday being. Still life on the table with the samovar in the
center creates a sense of unity. The samovar sparkles with greenish and golden
reflections and determines emotional atmosphere of the moment.
Author:
Korzukhin, A.I. 1835-1894
Title: In the Monastery Guesthouse
Date:1882
Media: Oil
on canvas
Size:
196,7 x 150,2 cm
Provenance: Tretyakov Gallery,
Accession number: #23252
Subject: Korzukhin - Indoor tea-drinking
– Social gathering - Parson – Group portrait – Interior – Genre
painting - Realism
In
the big hall of a monastery inn is turmoil of departure preparations and
farewells. The whole action is spinning around a big dinner table with samovar.
The morning tea-drinking
is
finished, only children are left. Young
man drinks up hurriedly his cup of tea. Two little old ladies treat each other
with tea from the samovar. This splendid genre
scene
was inspired by impressions of everyday life in Sviato-Tikhon’s cloister in
Zadonsk. The painting is a great example of how tea-drinking ritual joins people of
different society levels.
Author: Korzukhin, A.I.
(1835-1894)
Title:
Sunday
Date: 1884
Media: Oil
on canvas
Size: 1884
Provenance:
Accession number:
Subject: Korzukhin
- Outdoor tea-drinking – Social
gathering - Samovar- Landscape - Realism
Outdoor
leisure time never was spent without tea-drinking. For picnic in the spring or
in the summer townsfolk took samovars in suburban parks. A table-cloth was
spread out on a grass, a simple food was pulled out from baskets, and samovar
was set up on the special pedestal.
Author:
Kustodiev, B.K. (1878-1927)
Title: The
Date: 1916
Media: Oil
on canvas
Size: 99.3 x 129.3 cm
Provenance: Tretyakov Gallery,
Accession number: #22352
Subject: Kustodiev - Indoor tea-drinking
– Social Gathering - Cub driver – Group Portrait -
Interior – Folk painting
In
those years visitors of a