Andrey Petrovich Ryabushkin encountered far more trials and hardships than joys in his short life. Very modest, gentle and retiring, he was, however, a man of great courage and fortitude. Though his art was largely misunderstood and his contemporaries only too often received it with undisguised hostility, he continued to work stubbornly, searching for a poetic embodiment of his artistic ideals.
1880s. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1886. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1887. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1889. Oil on canvas. The Novgorod Art and History Museum, Novgorod, Russia.
1889. Oil on canvas. The Novgorod Art and History Museum, Novgorod, Russia.
1891. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1891. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1892. Study. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1893. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1893. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1893. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1895. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1895. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1895. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Art Museum of Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1896. Oil on canvas. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1897. Watercolor on paper. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
1899. Oil on canvas. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
Ryabushkin. Russian Painters series. Aurora. Leningrad. 1973.