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拍品专文
Along with, Peter the Great (1872), Christ (1874) and Mephistopheles (1883), the figure of Ivan the Terrible (1871) is considered to be one of the best works by Mark Antokol'skii.
The historical bronze figure of Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], for which the artist was awarded a gold medal and the title of Academician, was first exhibited in 1871 and was later purchased by Alexander II for the Hermitage Collection (now in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, no. Sk-455). The sculpture was pivotal in Antokol'skii's career and was subsequently produced in different media: marble (1875) for the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, another marble for The Irkutsk Museum, a plaster version for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and a smaller cast in silver, now at the State Russian Museum. The work was so successful that Antokol'skii made a reduced version of the statue and also a marble bust in 1874.
The use of majolica by the artist is a very rare example, despite the great interest in this medium in Russia and Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Only one bust executed by Antokol'skii in majolica is recorded - the bust of Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav Mudryi], 1889, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, no. Sk-1055.
For further information and other versions of the bust, see E.V. Kuznetsova, M.M. Antokol'skii Life and Work, Moscow, 1989, pp. 67, 69, plates 26, 27.
The historical bronze figure of Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], for which the artist was awarded a gold medal and the title of Academician, was first exhibited in 1871 and was later purchased by Alexander II for the Hermitage Collection (now in the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, no. Sk-455). The sculpture was pivotal in Antokol'skii's career and was subsequently produced in different media: marble (1875) for the Tretyakov Museum, Moscow, another marble for The Irkutsk Museum, a plaster version for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and a smaller cast in silver, now at the State Russian Museum. The work was so successful that Antokol'skii made a reduced version of the statue and also a marble bust in 1874.
The use of majolica by the artist is a very rare example, despite the great interest in this medium in Russia and Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Only one bust executed by Antokol'skii in majolica is recorded - the bust of Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav Mudryi], 1889, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, no. Sk-1055.
For further information and other versions of the bust, see E.V. Kuznetsova, M.M. Antokol'skii Life and Work, Moscow, 1989, pp. 67, 69, plates 26, 27.