Artist
Konstantin Somov
Russian, 1869–1939
Konstantin Somov was a Russian Post-Impressionism painter. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Tretyakov Gallery, most of them oil paintings. Konstantin Somov was born in Saint Petersburg.
Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов; 30 November 1869 – 6 May 1939) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Modernist period, best known as co-founding member of the Mir iskusstva society. After the Russian Revolution, he eventually emigrated to Paris, along with other prominent figures in the Russian arts. In his private life, he had a longtime, younger male companion, Methodiy Lukyanov, and an ambiguous artistic and personal relationship with a young boxer, Boris Snezhkovsky, whom he painted many times.
In the 21st century, his paintings have sold in the millions of dollars. In 2007, Somov's The Rainbow sold at Christie's London for GBP 3,716,000 (USD 7.44 million; equivalent to GBP 6.28 million in 2025), an auction record for a Russian work of art.
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