21 Works, Today, March 9th. is artist Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko's day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #067

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Easter morning prayer in Malorosia

Oil on canvas

Rybinsk State Museum of History, Architecture and Fine Arts, Rybinsk, Russia

Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko, also known as Nikolai Kornilovich Pimonenko (9 March 1862, Priorka, near Kiev — 26 March 1912, Kiev) was a Ukrainian-born realist painter who lived and worked in the Russian Empire.

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Victim of fanaticism, c. 1899

Oil on canvas

Height: 180 cm (70.8 in); Width: 224 cm (88.1 in)

Fine Arts Museum , Ukraine

The painting tells a story about a real incident - punishment by the Jewish community in Kremenets in Little Russia (now Ternopil Province, Ukraine) of a Jewish girl for her relationship with an Orthodox boy and her transition to Christianity. She wears a cross on her neck. More on this painting

Mykola Pymonenko

Fortune-Telling on Christmastide, c. 1888

Oil oi canvas

111 X 76.5 cm

The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Pymonenko was associated with the Society of South Russian Artists (1891–6) and the Russian Peredvizhniki society as of 1893. He is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of farmers, country folk and working-class people.

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Don't be crap. 1895

Oil on canvas
I have no further description, at this time

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Matchmakers, c. 1882

Oil on canvas

72 × 102 cm (28.3 × 40.1 in)

F. A. Kovalenko Art Museum

Mykola Pymonenko

The Idyll, c. 1908

Oil on canvas

h 195, w 140

National Art Museum of Ukraine

The Idyll demonstrates the artist’s attainments in mastering the laws of plein-air technique, which leads to a greater dynamism of natural environment. In this painting the bright summer sun permeates the greenery of leaves and mauve translucent shadows fall on the earth enveloped in light and air. More on this painting

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Ukraine night

Oil on canvas

I have no further description, at this time

Pimonenko Nikolai Kornilievich

A Date

Oil on canvas

I have no further description, at this time

Pimonenko Nikolai Kornilievich

Buying out the Bride, 1908 

"Wedding in Little Russia".

Oil on canvas

Mykola Pymonenko

Wedding in Kiev Province

I have no further description, at this time

Pymonenko was born in the village Priorka. His father was a master iconographer of Ukrainian descent. After working as his assistant, Mykola was taken to study icon painting at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. In 1876, his works were seen by Nikolay Murashko, one of the founders of the Kiev Art School, who was impressed and lobbied the school's financial backers to allow him to study there for free.

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Seeing off the recruits

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862–1912)

Off to War/ On a hike, c. 1902

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Peter I, who decided that Russia needed a regular army, approached this issue with his usual historical scope. The army began to take forever. Until the end of life. And given the intensity of Peter's battles, it could have come pretty quickly. There were few hunters to choose such a fate of their own free will. Therefore, the lot was drawn in the villages forcibly: this is how the community decided which of the men of military age, on average from 20 to 30 years old, would be recruited. In the folk tradition, they often said “in nekruta” - this very word remained in many ditties and choruses. More on this painting

Two years later, he was able to enter the school where he worked with Murashko, Khariton Platonov and others. His examination work was sent to the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1881, he received a license to teach drawing in the lower secondary schools and was able to audit classes at the Academy. He later married the daughter of one of his instructors, Vladimir Orlovsky.

Mykola Pymonenko (1862–1912)  Flower girl, c. 1908 Oil on canvas National Art Museum of Ukraine	Mykola Pymonenko (1862–1912)  Geese, Go Home! Oil on canvas 108,5×81 cm. The Library of Ukrainian Art

In 1884, due to poor health and financial difficulties, he returned to Kiev, where he found work as a drawing teacher at a private school. He moved to the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in 1901, when the school went out of business, and remained there for the rest of his life. After 1906, he also taught at the new Kiev Art School  which he helped organize.

Mykola Pymonenko

On the Dnieper, c. 1906

Oil on canvas

52,5×72 cm.

I have no further description, at this time

Mykola Kornylijowytsch Pymonenko

Rivals

Oil on canvas

Regional Art Museum, Simferopol.

In 1897, he participated in decorating St Vladimir's Cathedral and was awarded the Order of Saint Anne for his work there. He became a full member of the Peredvizhniki in 1899 and was named an "Academician" in 1904. He also exhibited widely; winning a gold medal at the Salon in 1909 for his painting Gopak. It currently hangs in the Louvre.

Nikolai Karnilovitch Pimonenko

Nach Hause/ Going Home

Oil on canvas

35.5 cm x 53.5 cm 

Private collection

Later, he temporarily fell out of favor with the Peredvizhniki when one of his paintings, "Going Home" (See above) was used by the Shustov Vodka Company to promote their spotykach. He was accused of having become "corrupted" and was forced to sue the company to have the image removed.

Nikolai Pimonenko 

Harvest Time like Ukraine

Oil on canvas

I have no further description, at this time

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862-1912)

Haymaking, c. 19 century

Oil on canvas

Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine

Attributed to Nikolai Karnilovitch Pimonenko

Ukrainian farmer's market

Oil on canvas

H. 64,5, B. 100 cm.

Private collection

Mykola Pymonenko  (1862-1912)

Fair

Oil on canvas

Kharkiv Art Museum 

He died in 1912 after a short, serious illness. He was buried at the Lukyanivka Cemetery. His posthumous exhibition at the Academy of Arts, which took place in early 1913, featured 184 paintings, 419 sketches and 112 pencil drawings. In 1959, a street was named after him and, in 1997, a museum devoted to him was opened in Malyutyanka [uk], a village where he painted during the summers, in the Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion. Several of his works have alternate versions, often painted years apart. More on Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko

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