Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (Russian painter) 1850 - 1923
The Walloon Village of Jupille, 1912
oil on panel
20.5 x 26 cm. (8 x 10.25 in.)
signed in Latin and inscribed Ju l.r., further numbered 89 and indistinctly stamped on the reverse
private collection
Catalogue Note Sotheby's sale
In his praise of Pokhitonov’s ‘miniature pearls’, it is telling that Ilya Repin picked out first and foremost the artist’s eye for architecture: ‘What brio and freshness, what discipline in the drawing and tone throughout the paintings, especially the buildings. Verging on total illusion’ (quoted in V.Petrov, Ivan Pokhitonov, 2003, p.22-23). The modest subject and muted light of the present view of hens and blossoming trees in a rural courtyard is combined here with a characteristic interest in the complex planes of walls and rooftops.
The present lot will be included in the third volume of the catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by Olivier Bertrand.
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Pokhitonov studied in Paris under the tutelage of A. P. Bogoliubov and came under the influence of the masters of the Barbizon school. From 1876 he lived in France and Belgium; from 1903 to 1905, in Byelorussia; and from 1913, in the Ukraine. He emigrated in 1919.
In 1905, Pokhitonov joined the peredvizhniki (the “wanderers” a progressive art movement). His small, realistic landscapes, executed directly from nature and using a technique almost characteristic of miniatures, sometimes include genre elements. His works combine simplicity of theme with subtle illumination (The Beach at La Panne, 1895, Tret’iakov Gallery). Pokhitonov also painted portraits (I. S. Turgenev, 1882, Tret’iakov Gallery).
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