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Alexis Gritchenko

Fishing Village

1921
Mixed media on cardboard (later mounted to plywood)
32.4 × 35.2 cm (12.8 × 13.9 in)

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Fishing boats float on a choppy green sea next to a mass of terracotta-roofed homes; palm trees wave in the wind on the far shore. 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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