#lev lagorio

[dailyclassicart]

Lev Lagorio - "Seascape" (1886)

[venustapolis]

Harbor with Boats at Twilight (Lev Lagorio, 1886)

[i-love-this-art]

Lev Lagorio / "Moonlit Night on the Neva" / 1898 / Primorye Regional Art Gallery, Vladivostok

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Lev Lagorio - Children Launching a Toy Boat

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Moonlit night by the sea by Lev Lagorio

[jnjo]

Lev Lagorio

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (6/8/20) Lev Lagorio (Ukrainian, 1827-1905) The Neva at Dusk, St. Petersburg (1875) Oil on canvas, 60 x 97.5 cm. Private Collection

This work beautifully exemplifies Lagorio’s aptitude for expressive color. Like Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Lagorio worked in the finest tradition of Romantic landscape painting. Influenced by the older artist, Lagorio’s mastery also lies in his rendition of light, here using contrasting colours to depict the vibrant St Petersburg sky above the shimmering silver water. The familiar silhouette of the Peter and Paul Fortress stands out on the horizon, while the barque and its rowers focus the eye.

The painting is also a beautiful and subtle example of a Romantic composition, where poetic impulse is balanced with an academically constructed composition. Typified by a refined sense of composition, Lagorio’s paintings consistently depict charming and evocative landscapes. Imbued with the principles of Romanticism, the artist immerses the viewer into a lyrical landscape where the forces of nature express themselves via a simple sky at dusk over the banks of the Neva. (from a Christie's auction catalog)

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Lev Lagorio