Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin Born in Moscow in 1861. Died in
Paris in 1939. It is strange that Korovin, a born painter,
should begin his studies in the architectural department of the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. However,
only several months later, he became a student of A.K. Savrasov,
and later V.D. Polenov. Continuing the line of Savrasov and
Polenov’s lyrical landscape, he arrived at the Impressionist
vision of nature—a conveyance of light and air and creation
directly from life—even before he saw the works of the French
Impressionists in 1893. Korovin’s trip to the Russian North in
1894 had a great influence on him. Korovin was highly productive
as an artist of the theater. He worked for S.I. Mamontov’s
private opera from 1885, and in Imperial theaters later on. In
1923, he moved to Paris where he continued to work as a
theatrical decorator and paint landscapes, particularly
nocturnal scenes of Paris boulevards. Korovin was one of the
most brilliant representatives of Impressi