Favorite Artists: Constantin Korovin

Constantin Korovin (also spelled Konstantin Korovin) was born in Moscow in 1861. He inherited his interest in art from his third-generation merchant father and studied first at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, then at the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts, but considered both schools old-fashioned. In 1885, at the age of 24, he traveled to Paris where he discovered the impressionists. Later he commented, “In [the impressionists] I found everything for which I was scolded back home in Moscow.“ Korovin’s Parisian paintings are considered among his best. He returned to Russia and became a camouflage consultant during the First World War. In 1923, he moved permanently to Paris, where he died in 1939 at the age of 77. Music is Francisco Tarrega’s “Recuerdos de la Ainamera.“