Dimensions: 43 x 78 cm
signed p.d.: 'Alessio Issupoff'
On the reverse a paper inventory sticker with the number: 'PR/ N.079274/2845'
Biography
In 1908 Issupoff began studying at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. During this time he participated in exhibitions of the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions (Peredvizhniki). Between 1910 and 1915, he exhibited his works, most of which were landscapes, at exhibitions of the Moscow Lemercier gallery, during spring exhibitions in the halls of the Imperial Academy of Arts and charity exhibitions held to help the families of wounded and killed soldiers participating in World War I . In 1915 he received a call up to the army. He served his military service from 1915 to 1917 in the Simbirsk rifle regiment in Turkestan in Tashkent . In 1920 he was sent to Samarkand, where he acted as an artist and head of the art section of the Commission for the Restoration and Preservation of Samarkand's Antiquities. He made sketches of antiquities, studied archaeology, history, culture and artistic traditions of Central Asia. At that time, he referred to impressionist painting in his work, and created a series of paintings, oriental landscapes and genre scenes. In 1921, after returning to Moscow, he joined the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia, participated in exhibitions of the Association of Artists of Peredvizhniki, the Union of Russian Artists , the Society of Artists of the Moscow School, and worked on the album "The Great Revolution and the Life of the Red Army." At the request of the government, the artist made a series of portraits of Soviet statesmen, created works devoted to revolutionary themes. In 1926 he went to Italy, the reason for his departure was the incurable bone tuberculosis he suffered from. He spent 30 years of his life there. He exhibited his works in Rome, Milan, Naples, and became a significant participant in solo and group exhibitions. In 1949, an illustrated monograph of the artist's works was published in Italy, written by the famous Italian art critic Professor Giorgio Nicodemi.
