Portrait of AN Sobolschikova-Samarina [1910] Cardboard, tempera, pastel. 69 x 46.5. Penza Picture Gallery. KA Savitsky Ivan Silych Goryushkin-Sorokopudov, the artist, settled in the province, had a fairly wide popularity. Drawings and reproductions from his works, illustrations for the novels of A. Tolstoy “Prince Serebryany”, P. Melnikov-Pechersky “In the woods”, G. Uspensky’s stories “Incurable”, “In the inn” and others, which were regularly published in the most popular magazines of those years, “Niva”, “Sun of Russia”, “Capital and Manor”, multiplied the fame of their author.
Today the picturesque and graphic works of Goryushkin-Sorokopudov are exhibited in the best museums of the country, but the most complete and diverse collection, over 150 works, is in the Penza Art Gallery. It is here that a small memorial museum of the master is opened, where not only picturesque and graphic works are presented, but also personal belongings, photographs, documents, as well as furniture made according to his own sketches.
The constant motive power of Goryushkin’s creativity was love for man, a careful attitude to his personality, which was most evident in the portraits of contemporaries, masterly painted and beautifully written. Refusing, as a rule, from custom-made portraits, Goryushkin created an extensive gallery of images of his friends, fellow workers.
Matte surface tempera in combination with the velvety color pasta give many portraits a special color scheme that helps to reveal this or that charming image. For women’s portraits of the artist, for example the well-known actress A. N. Sobolshchikova-Samarina, the Penza princess N. V. Mansyreva is characterized by a stamp of aristocratism, refinement that meets the new aesthetic aspirations of the era, the style of modernity.
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