Nanny’s Cottage

Image

Image in the museum catalogue ↗

Where it is held

Held by

the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye)

Catalogue record

• pushkinland.ru/2018/lib/gzt/push13.pdf ↗

Description

Artwork by Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin, 1945; the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye).

People

Makers

• Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin 6 August 1929 – 10 June 1999 artist third cousin twice removed

Other works

• Autumn Landscape. From the series Sister Earth02.05.1967
• Mikhailovskoye. View of the Estate. 19501950
• Works in the exhibition Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction (2015)1950–1970-е
• Reclining Woman 11965
• Reclining Woman 21965
• Winter1966
• Mood. Female Face1966
• Portrait of a Woman1966

In the chronicle

1. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …. In the same year he made a pencil drawing of Nanny’s Cottage and signed the sheet “BKalaushin 45”.

2. 10. Pushkin House

   • The Pushkin Reserve, declared in 1922, passed from hand to hand for ten years, and Nanny’s Cottage, as Kalaushin wrote, was “turned into an apiary and a store for all sorts of equipment”; on 16 November 1933…
   • …Boris finished a rough plan of the park at Petrovskoye, marking the minefield and dugouts, and he drew Nanny’s Cottage in pencil.
   • …. In May 1947 Geychenko and Kalaushin sent Lebedev-Polyansky the plan of the exhibition in Nanny’s Cottage for approval, and Granovskaya, at Kalaushin’s request and Geychenko’s wish, was…
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3. 11. The Artist

   • The pencil drawing Nanny’s Cottage (Domik nyani), signed “BKalaushin 45”, dates from the same year; in 2015 the Reserve’s newspaper printed it…
   • …May 1945); its colour version of 1946 should be sought there too, and the Reserve asked where the drawing Nanny’s Cottage (1945) is kept.

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