Konstantin Korovin

Deauville – The Artists – Korovin, Konstantin

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Deauville. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

Konstantin Korovin
Konstantin Korovin

Movement(s): Impressionism

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (first name often spelled Constantin- 1861 – 1939) was a leading Russian Impressionist painter. Konstantin was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as “peasants of Vladimir Gubernia“. His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin’s grandfather. Konstantin’s older brother Sergei Korovin was a notable realist painter. Konstantin’s relative Illarion Pryanishnikov was also a prominent painter of the time and a teacher at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

In 1875 Korovin entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied with Vasily Perov and Alexei Savrasov. His brother Sergei was already a student at the school. During their student years, the Korovins became friends with fellow students Valentin Serov and Isaac Levitan; Konstantin maintained these friendships throughout his life.

In 1885 Korovin traveled to Paris and Spain. “Paris was a shock for me … Impressionists… in them I found everything I was scolded for back home in Moscow“, he later wrote.

In 1888 Korovin traveled with Mamontov to Italy and Spain, where he produced the painting On the Balcony, Spanish Women Leonora and Ampara. Konstantin traveled within Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia and exhibited with the Peredvizhniki. He painted in the Impressionist, and later in the Art Nouveau, styles.

One of the artist’s favourite themes was Paris. He painted A Paris Cafe (1890s), Cafe de la Paix (1905), La Place de la Bastille (1906), Paris at Night, Le Boulevard Italien (1908), Night Carnival (1901), Paris in the Evening (1907), and others.

In 1923 Korovin moved to Paris on the advice of Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky to cure his heart condition and help his handicapped son. There was supposed to be a large exhibition of Korovin’s works, but the works were stolen and Korovin was left penniless. For years, he produced the numerous Russian Winters and Paris Boulevards just to make ends meet.

Korovin died in Paris on 11 September 1939. He was buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, in the southern suburbs of Paris.

Click here to read Korovin’s full bio on Wikipedia.

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1932 - Konstantin Korovin - The shore at Deauville
1932 – Konstantin Korovin – The shore at Deauville

Korovin painted throughout Europe, although Paris was his favorite subject. he did paint in a lot of other places in France. Here are most of those places (a link “⇠” to his works of art will appear here when published):

  • Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes
    • Vichy
  • Centre-Val de Loire
    • Amboise sur Loire
  • Normandy
  • Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur

Deauville was (and still is) a popular place to paint. Here are the artists we found that worked in the city and its surroundings. When an artist’s work is published by us, we’ll show a link (“⇠“) to their works of art. A “*” indicates that the artist did NOT paint directly in Deauville, instead worked in Deauville’s surroundings.

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