Filip Andreevich MALIAVIN
1869–1940, Russia
Also known as: PM, Maljavin, Maliavine, Malyavin
Signature proven counterfeit
Mixed media, drawing, portrait of elegant lady, signed "Maliavine 1923" in Cyrillic letters, 50x40 cm. The painting was sold by a small auction house in Stockholm in autumn 2009, via their online auction. In May 2010, the purchaser will be back with the painting and return it after consulting with a Russian expert who doubt about the painting's authenticity. The police Stockholm City takes the painting seized for further investigation. After an expert inquiry and judgment declared that the painting is not genuine. It is a forgery.
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Signature considered genuine
Filip Andreevich Maliavin, also well-known as: Filip Andreevic Maljavin / Philip Andreievich Maliavin was born in the village of Kazanka on the Volga into an illiterate peasant family, and taught himself to draw at a young age. A neighbour who had become a monk on Mount Athos returned with him to the Holy Mountain, where the young Maliavin became a novice and learned to paint icons in the monastery workshop. He continued to paint secular pictures for his own satisfaction. When Beklemishev, professor of sculpture at the Academy, happened to visit Athos on a pilgrimage, he was so impressed with the youth s talent that he paid his passage to St. Petersburg and for his studies at the Academy. Maliavin studied under Ilya Repin, and soon made a name for himself with his boldly executed and colourful depictions of peasant life. Perhaps as a result of his humble origins, he found himself as unofficial court painter of the Bolsheviks and sketched many leaders (Lenin, Trotsky, Lunacharsky) in the Kremlin in 1920-21. However, the following year he fled Soviet Russia and settled in Nice. In the emigration, he reworked themes of his earlier period but now suffused either with nostalgia or bitterness. He happened to be in Brussels when the Nazis invaded, was arrested and nearly shot, but succeeded in persuading his captors he was simply an artist. He was then released and set off for Nice on foot. The journey took all his strength, and he died shortly after his return.
Source: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm Sweden
Portrait Of Mina Sederholm, Born Sjöcrona (1930)
Delbostintan (1939)
Karton. Weib
Portait Of Artist Friend Vasiili Levi (1874-1954) (1939)
Woman In A Red Dress
Centaurs Quarreling.
Porträtt Föreställande Gustav V
Carl August Wickander (1936)
Female Nude In Cap Seated On Tree Trunk In Water
Self Portrait
Woman In Kerchief And Apron Standing Hand To Mouth
The Flirtatious Centaur
Woman In Hat And Coat With Man
(3) Three Sketches On The Theme Of Motherhood
Elderly Peasant Couple In An Autumn Landscape
Woman And Sleeping Man
Plough Horse And Foal
(3) Three Drawings Of Horse-drawn Sleds
Portrait Of Pavel Nikolaievich Miliukov
Study For A Portrait Of King Alexander I Of Yugoslavia
Girl Standing With Dol
Portrait Of A Lady, Possibly The Artist´s Wif
Two Studies Of Girl's Head, One From Behind
Head And Torso Of Woman In Kerchief
Old Man With Beard, Turban And Robes
Horsemen Passing On A Country Path
Head And Shoulders Of Man In Dark Glasses
