Dimensions: 10.5 x 22.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'B.Poustochkine.'
Biography
Basile Poustochkine was a talented and well-trained artist as a painter, printmaker and illustrator. His fate at various points in his life was connected with Poland - he fought in our country against the Bolsheviks, worked here and with a Polish passport went to France. There he lived in the rooms of the palace, which was later occupied by Polish diplomats Mr. and Mrs. Strzalko. It is from their collection that all the works on display in Marchand come. His wartime experiences affected his personality; although he regularly exhibited his works, he chose the life of a recluse, moving away from critics and artistic life. He created prints, designed fabric patterns and painted landscapes. Small in size, but intriguing works, filled with soft light and the beauty of nature. When he created landscape studies of the Paris area, in a sense he was the heir to the achievements of the Impressionists. As a Post-Impressionist, however, he did not follow the path of gradual deconstruction of nature, but on the contrary, the path of showing its spirit, colors and light. What distinguishes Poustochkin's works is also a certain nostalgia encapsulated in these small forms. Among the painted meadows, fields and forests, human figures rarely appear, and even then they are only an addition to the landscape. More often, instead, one can find autumn landscapes full of color and subdued light.
