MIKHAIL BALUNIN (1875-1939) Winter morning. Pines and a passing sleigh.

Lotto 386

1 2001 500

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘M Balaunin 98’ (lower right) watercolour on board 17 x 26.5 cm executed in 1898 Mikhail Balunin was a Russian painter and graphic artist, born in St. Petersburg in 1875. He studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. From 1906 onward, he regularly exhibited his work and was a member of several prominent artistic associations, including the Petrogradskoe obshchestvo khudozhnikov (1891, 1918) [St. Petersburg Society of Artists], Tovarishchestvo khudozhnikov (1891, 1918) [the Society of Artists], Obshchestvo russkikh akvarelistov [the Society of Russian Watercolorists], ‘Obshchestvo khudozhnikov-individualistov’ (1926, 1928, 1929) [the Society of Individualist Artists], and the A. I. Kuindzhi Society. Balunin painted landscapes and genre scenes and contributed illustrations to the popular magazine Niva beginning in 1907. His works were shown at major exhibitions such as the Autumn Exhibitions (1906–1914), the Patriotic Exhibition 'War' (1915), and the 1923 Exhibition of Petrograd Artists of All Trends.

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