Africa in the paintings of Russian artists
Dangerous jungles, ancient temples and magnificent gardens – these are just some of the diverse ways they saw this mysterious and distant continent.
Nikanor Chernetsov. ‘El-Habbaniya street in Cairo’, 1842
Nikolai Makovsky. ‘Cairo. The Sphinx and pyramids’, 1874
Konstantin Makovsky. ‘Street in Cairo’, 1873
Konstantin Makovsky. ‘The transfer of the Holy carpet in Cairo’, 1876
Vasily Polenov. ‘Egyptian girl’, 1876
Vasily Polenov. ‘The temple of Isis at Philae island’, 1882
Valery Jacobi. ‘Morocco. Two figures in an ancient building. Tangier’, 1890’s
Yevgeni Senigov. ‘Feast in a rich house’, 1890-1906
Stepan Bakalowitz. ‘At a spring. Algiers’, 1906
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. ‘Black woman’, 1907
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. ‘In the oasis (African village)’, 1907
Ivan Bilibin. ‘A street in Cairo’, 1921
Alexander Rubtsov. ‘In the gardens of Sidi Bou Said’, 1926
Zinaida Serebryakova. ‘Moroccan woman in white’, 1928
Andrei Mylnikov. ‘The awakening of Africa (For peace and independence)’, 1957
