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Konstantin Somov (30 November 1869, St. Petersburg – 6 May 1939, Paris) was a famous Russian painter and graphic artist, portrait and landscape master, illustrator, one of the founders of the association “Mir iskusstva” (“World of Art”).

Peculiar features of Konstantin Somov’s art: Konstantin Somov is known for numerous portraits, as well as paintings and drawings depicting genre scenes that revive the cutesy world of the court balls and masquerades of the “gallant” 18th century.

The artist's watercolors best demonstrate his exquisite workmanship.

The most famous artworks by Konstantin Somov: “Rainbow”, “Lady in Blue”, Portrait of Sergei Rachmaninov, illustrations for the “Book of the Marquise”.

Childhood and youth in his father's house
Konstantin Somov was born in 1869 in a famous noble family.

The artist’s father taught physics and mathematics, translated Galileo’s “Discourses