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only: his red chalk Still Life with a Samovar and
oil-on-canvas Tea Kettle crackle with an energy
whose searing angularity contrasts with the
round-formed Pears & Apples that bring to mind
his 1914 oil sketch of Kiev Haymarket – itself a
study for a larger painting now in the collection
of Konstantin Grigorishin.
The market was held on what is now
Lvovskaya Ploschad (Lvov Square) at the top of
Voznesensky Spusk (Voznesensky Descent) – the
street where Bogomazov lived with Wanda and
her family in a large-windowed brick apartment-
block built in 1895. This still stands, just 100 yards
from the Kiev Art Institute (designed by Evgeny
Market, 1914, Oil on canvas, 110 x 95 cm. Collection of Konstantin Grigorishin, Moscow
