Korovin learned from Savrasov to find hidden poetry, lyrics, learned to seize and emotionally convey the sensation of life in the landscape in outwardly invisible corners of nature. The undoubted connection with the art of Savrasov can be found in his works such as Early Spring and the Last Snow.
Igor Grabar in 1909 rightly noticed that Korovin was the first artist of his generation turned to the favorite motif of landscapes Savrasov. “Korovin is the author of the first Spring, which appeared after the Savras rooks. Every incredible number of the last snows, March and early spring, which is so rich in Russian painting of the last fifteen years, originates, of course, from Korovin.” Since 1879, Korovin himself participated in the student exhibitions of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which became a notable event in the cultural life of Moscow. The newspapers wrote about them seriously.
On one of them, PM Tretyakov purchased Levitan’s painting “Autumn Day, Sokolniki.” At the first exhibition Korovin was remembered by spectators with the etude “Spring” – a large crow on a tree not yet covered with foliage. The canvas revealed lyrical talent in the future master. From those days, among the few came his landscape “Early Spring”, depicting the outskirts of the village warmed by the spring sun with a rickety hut in the shadow of the fluffy willows. The picture is distinguished by the subtlety of color gradations, in it the remarkably colouristic talent of the young author.
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