Григорий Мусатов в Праге
Grigoryi Musatov in Prague

Summary/Abstract: Grigoryi Musatov, one of the representatives of the interwar avant-garde, lived in Prague as a Russian émigré from the early 1920s. His early works, inspired by memories of his youth in the country near the river Volga, resemble Blok´s symbolist poetry. The monumental figurative stylisation of Stenka Razin, painted in the spirit of the folk art called ‘lubok’, evokes V. Khlebnikov´s poem of the same name. Musatov´s mature work inspired by sport or technology is close to O. Mandelstam´s poetry. Neoimpressionistic painting – the last period of Musatov´s work – is linked to the Czech landscape.

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