Sailboats, Crete

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

A red sailboat floats on the turquoise Bay of Heraklion, complemented in the sky by scudding rhomboid clouds. Massive purple mountains surge above the bay. Gritchenko had begun his career among avant-garde circles in Moscow but fled following the revolutions of 1918. He spent the next few years immersing himself in Mediterranean sites, seeking to capture what he understood as deep connections between ancient artistic traditions and modernism.

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