Upcoming at Auction

Konstantin Andreevich Somov

Konstantin Andreevich Somov (1869 - 1939) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France.  Konstantin Somov is known for Portrait, figure, landscape and aristocratic genre painting, teaching.

Constantin Andreevich Somov was born in St. Petersburg on November 30, 1869 into the family of the senior curator at the Hermitage, artist and art historian, Andrei Ivanovich Somov and his wife, Nadezhda Constantinovna, an excellent musician. The family had a big collection of paintings, etchings, watercolors, and big library; the artists were frequent guests in the house. Constantin started to learn to play piano, singing, and painting early.

From 1888 till 1897, he studied at the Academy of Arts, where from 1894 he took a course at Ilya Repin's studio. Later he wrote that the first five years in the Academy were a lost and fruitless time. Nevertheless he took the studies very seriously and got a number of awards in the academy. The work with Repin can be felt in some of his paintings of those years, e.g. portraits of N. Ober, wife of the sculptor Ober (1896), Portrait of Father (1897), Self-Portrait (1898).

Since his childhood Somov was a friend of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5122 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 286 auction lots for Konstantin Andreevich Somov (of which 174 auction records sold and 1 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Konstantin Andreevich Somov as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Konstantin Andreevich Somov in 0 of its research Essays. Konstantin Andreevich Somov has 13 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Konstantin Andreevich Somov available:    Alexander Grigorievich Tishler,  Valentin Alexandrovitch Serov,  Vasili Ivanovich Shukhaev,  Abram Efimovich Arkhipov,  Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev,  Alexandre Evgenevich Yakovlev,  Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova,  Sergei Soudeikine,  Yuri Pavlovich Annenkov,  Aristarkh Lentulov,  Viktor Mikhaelovich Vasnetsov,  Dmitri Semenovich Stelletsky,  Ivan Iakovlevich Bilibin,  Nikolai Konstantinovich Kalmakov,  Savely Sorine,  Nadezhda Udaltsova,  Martiros Seregeevich Sarian,  Petr Alexandrovich Nilus,  Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin,  Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov,  Seraphin Nikolaevich Soudbinine,  Eugen Gustav Duecker,  Kirill Mikhailovitch Zdanevitch,  Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich