Tarkhov Nikolay Aleksandrovich
Blooming tree.

Blooming tree.
Year: Early of XX century.
Technique: Watercolour and gouache on paper.
Size: 64,4х49,5.

Signed lower right. The work took part in an exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery and was published in the catalog of N. Tarkhov in the State Tretyakov Gallery. P. 282, ill. 269.

Tarkhov Nikolay Aleksandrovich (1871, Moscow – 1930, Orset, outskirts of Paris).

Visited the Studio of K.A Korovin jointly with P. Kuznetsov and N. Milioti. Left for Paris in 1899, where visited the class of J.P. Lorance at the Julien Academy and L.O. Merson at the Fine Arts School. For some time was keen to impressionism. Tarkhov has been regularly exposed at the Saloon of Independent, taking part at the exhibitions of the National Society of Fine Arts. In 1903 got the membership of the ‘Union of Russian painters’, been exposed in all the exhibitions of the Association. In 1906 Ambruaz Vollaire made personal exhibition of Tarkhov’s works at his Gallery on the Rue Lafayette. In 1908 the Tretyakov Gallery bought the painter’s work ‘Goats under the Sun’. In 1909 the personal exhibition of Takhov was held in the Druot Gallery in Paris. In Saint-Petersburg the works of Tarkhov have been exposed at the ‘Makovsky Saloon’, on exhibitions of the Izdebsky Saloon, having participated at the ‘Amory Show’ in New-York in 1913. N.A. Tarkhov was appearing as one of the founders of the second ‘Arts World’, his works were being acquired by the Tretyakov gallery and Russian Museum, such collectors as I.A. Morozov and I.I. Troyanovsky. Personal exhibitions of N.A. Tarkhov were being constantly held in the Museums and Galleries of Paris, London, New-York and Geneva. In 1983 the retrospective exhibitions of the painter were held at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Leningrad, and in 2003 – at the State Tretyakov Gallery.