You may know what Russian artists' most famous works look like, but you might not be able to picture the creators of these marvels themselves. Artists used self-portraits to leave their memory through the ages. We've selected 12 of the most extraordinary self-portraits of Russian artists whom you're sure to know.
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Ivan Aivazovsky
You may know what Russian artists' most famous works look like, but you might not be able to picture the creators of these marvels themselves. Artists used self-portraits to leave their memory through the ages. They're all painted in various manners and styles. We've selected 12 of the most extraordinary self-portraits of Russian artists whom you're sure to know. / Self-portrait, 1874, Ivan Aivazovsky, world-famous marine painter.
Valentin Serov
Self-portrait, 1885, Valentin Serov. Portrait painter. His most famous work is The Girl With Peaches from 1887.
Karl Bryullov
Self-portrait, Karl Bryullov was a painter whose most famous work was The Rider from 1832.
Isaac Levitan
Self-portrait, 1880, Isaac Levitan, master of the "mood landscape" genre. Known for his painting Spring. High Water in 1897.
Kazimir Malevich
Self-portrait, 1908-1910, Kazimir Malevich was an avant grade artist and the primary founder of the Suprematist movement. His most famous painting was Black Square.
Boris Kustodiev
Self-portrait, 1912, Boris Kustodiev was a painter who specialized in portrait painting. His most famous of his paintings was The Merchant's Wife in 1918.
Ilya Repin
Self-portrait at work, 1915, Ilya Repin, a Russian artist and master of painting portraits, historic moments, and scenes from daily life. Repin's best known work was his 1882 painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581.
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Self-portrait, 1927, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, a painter and graphic artist. Bathing of a Red Horse from 1912 was his most famous painting.
Zinaida Serebryakova
Self-portrait of Zinaida Serebryakova whose most famous painting was At the Dressing Table from 1909.
Konstantin Somov
Self-portrait in the mirror, Konstantin Somov, a Russian painter and graphic artist. His most famous painting was a portrait of Alexander Blok (a Russian poet and writer of the 20th century).
Natalia Goncharova
Self-portrait with Yellow Lilies, 1907, Natalia Goncharova, avant-garde artist. Her paintings are the most expensive of any female artist in history. Her most famous painting was the 1914 work Flowers.
Arseny Semionov
Self-portrait of Arseny Semionov who serves as an example of the development of Russian painting in the 1960s. His 1959 painting, Nevsky Prospekt, is his most famous.
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