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Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Nesterov

Mikhail Nesterov painted Russian religious life without the ceremony. Monks walking through birch woods, hermits, novices in pale habits, all set in landscape that carries as much of the feeling as the figures do. The tone is contemplative rather than devotional.

The Vision to the Youth Bartholomew, from 1890, is the picture that established him. It shows the boy who became Saint Sergius meeting a monk in a field, painted with thin spring colour and an almost flattened space.

He worked on church decoration for years, then after 1917 the subject became impossible and he turned to portraiture. Those late portraits of scientists, surgeons and sculptors are direct and unsentimental, and several are considered among the best Soviet era portraits, which is an odd end for a painter who spent his youth on saints.

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A Fir Tree by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionA Fir TreeMikhail Nesterov$249A Fox by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionA FoxMikhail Nesterov$259A Hand With Flowers by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionA Hand With FlowersMikhail Nesterov$259A Sick Girl by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionA Sick GirlMikhail Nesterov$259Your own photo?

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Commission a painting A Tree In Blossom by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionA Tree In BlossomMikhail Nesterov$249Archbishop, Portrait of Antoniy Volynskiy by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionArchbishop, Portrait of Antoniy VolynskiyMikhail Nesterov$259Autumn in a Village by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionAutumn in a VillageMikhail Nesterov$259Autumn by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionAutumnMikhail Nesterov$259By A Monastery Entrance by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionBy A Monastery EntranceMikhail Nesterov$259Death of Prince Alexander Nevsky by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionDeath of Prince Alexander NevskyMikhail Nesterov$249Deep Thoughts by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionDeep ThoughtsMikhail Nesterov$259Girl By A Pond, Portrait Of Natalia Nesterova by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionGirl By A Pond, Portrait Of Natalia NesterovaMikhail Nesterov$259Harmony Concord by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionHarmony ConcordMikhail Nesterov$259Hermit by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionHermitMikhail Nesterov$259Homeland of Aksakov by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionHomeland of AksakovMikhail Nesterov$249On The Eve Of Annunciation Feast by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionOn The Eve Of Annunciation FeastMikhail Nesterov$249On The Hills by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionOn The HillsMikhail Nesterov$259Peonies by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPeoniesMikhail Nesterov$249Philosophers, Portrait of Pavel Florenskiy and Sergey Bulgakov by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPhilosophers, Portrait of Pavel Florenskiy and Sergey BulgakovMikhail Nesterov$259Pond by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPondMikhail Nesterov$249Portrait of a Girl by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPortrait of a GirlMikhail Nesterov$249Portrait of Alexey Schusev by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPortrait of Alexey SchusevMikhail Nesterov$259Portrait of Alexey Severtsov by Mikhail Nesterov, hand-painted oil painting reproductionPortrait of Alexey SevertsovMikhail Nesterov$259
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