Nikolaj Petrovic Bogdanov-Bel'skij Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, b. 1868 - d. 1945

(b Shitjki, Russia, 1868; d Berlin,1945) Russian Painter. Nikolai Bogdanov Belsky studied in the Academies of Arts of both Moscow and St. Petersburg. He was honored with the title of Academician in 1903... Bogdanov Belsky was a master of informal portraiture. Bogdanov-Belsky incorporated Impressionist tenets early in his portraits and genre scenes of peasant life. Women at leisure, reading in the garden or basking in light were some of the most popular recreational subjects among Impressionist painters. Bogdanov-Belsky combines en plein-air subject matter, color and stroke into an academic framework. Bogdanov-Belsky combines both the rural and the urban in many of his artworks. (Credit: Sotheby’s, New York, Russian Art, April 26, 2006, lot 79)