Eugene Onegin
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Eugene Onegin
19.99 €
Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin" is given in illustrations by the famous painter of the XX century Lidia Timoshenko. Pushkin's main work was the only book to which Timoshenko turned as an illustrator. It was an experiment (from which, by the way, many of her colleagues discouraged her), which completely captured the artist ... for twenty years. As a result, she created two different series of illustrations: one - in oil, in the technique of grisaille, in the early postwar period (published in this edition), the second - in the 1960s, in color lithography. To this day, the works of Lydia Timoshenko are considered the best embodiment of the images described in the novel. According to the famous art historian L. A. Chegodaev, who together with his colleagues achieved the publication of "Eugene Onegin", decorated with Timoshenko's grisailles, the artist approached Pushkin's great creation "very psychologically acute and very dramatic". Timoshenko's illustrations help to perceive the novel as a very sad narrative about the tragedy of loneliness, about the story of an unforgivable mistake that destroyed the fates of both protagonists, about the involuntary and sorrowful breakup of two remarkable and significant people in a historical environment alien to both of them... Timoshenko's work turned out to be an independent pictorial poem, in many ways complementing Pushkin's novel. Judging by diary entries, correspondence with friends and their memoirs published in this edition, it was to create an "encyclopedia of Russian life in painting" and the artist sought to create in her "Onegin".
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