Oil painting Dense forest Konstantin Pavlovich...

Updated September 26, 2026

Lot number	143
Estimate	3,465.00 - 4,950.00 USD
Category	Fine Art & Prints
Auction	Autumn Scenery Painting Auction
Date	October 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM EDT
Auction house	NoFrame Gallery
Location	London

Golovkin. ?Vern 667 *** ABOUT THIS PAINTING *** * TITLE: "Dense forest" * ARTISTS: Konstantin Pavlovich Golovkin * SIZE: 48x70 cm/'18.89x27.55 inches' * MEDIUM: oil, canvas * HAND PAINTED: Original painting from our collection * CONDITION: we tried to convey the maximum information with the help of photos about this product About the artist: Samara merchant, artist, local historian, archaeologist, cultural figure. Owner of the first car in Samara. Amateur photographer. The owner of an art store, a publisher of postcards with views of Samara, Volga, Lada. Born in Samara in a merchant family. He studied drawing in a real school with N.A. Khramtsova (approx. 6 classes). In 1891, with F.E.Burov, he organized the Samara circle of art lovers, participated in exhibitions, showing about 170 of his works from 1891 to 1916. G. - the founder of the Samara landscape school of painting. He initiated the creation of an art department at the Samara Public Museum (1897), drawing up an appeal to Russian artists with a call to transfer works for the new department. In 1908-09, according to his project (with the participation of the architect V.V. Tepper), he built the “Cottage with elephants” in the Art Nouveau style on the Volga. In 1918, fearing reprisals, he left Samara with his family in Irkutsk. In December 1918 - January 1919 he traveled to Manchuria and Japan, where he collected works of art for the Samara Museum. In 1922 he returned to Samara, transferring a collection of oriental art, archaeological and ethnographic finds to the museum. In the last years of his life, he worked as an archivist in the Samara provincial archive. The SCM stores 5 paintings by G.: “The Last Snow. Osokori ”(1895),“ Crossing in the Lada ”(1901),“ Winter Sun ”(1906), etc., as well as an album of studies and a folder of drawings donated by the author. Field of activity: Trade: at the age of 31, he inherited a store from his father and declared himself a merchant of the second guild in Samara. In the company store of Konstantin Golovkin on Panskaya Street (Leningradskaya 34), there was everything necessary for drawing and painting. By 1917, Golovkin’s fortune was estimated at 2 million rubles — a huge sum, meanwhile. However, his commercial activities are only a small part of Golovkin's life. And not the most important thing for him. It is known that Konstantin began to draw, still not knowing how to speak. He managed to draw on everything that fell under his hands - on the floor, on the walls, on fences, on the ground - with chalk, charcoal, pencil, paints. As a child, working in a store, every free minute Konstantin ran away to draw on the Volga. He turned to the Volga landscapes throughout his life. By the age of twenty, Konstantin Golovkin was already known as a good painter, and in adulthood he became one of the greatest artists of Samara. During his not very long life, he wrote more than two hundred large canvases and made about two thousand d

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