"Balboa Island" by Constantine Cherkas

£15,250.00

 

ABSOLUTELY STUNNING OIL PAINTING  "Balboa Island" ...................By Constantine Cherkas.

 

"Balboa Island" by Costantine Cherkas

 

Stunning Work!!!

 

 

 

 Beautifully Framed.

 

 

 

 

 A view of the rear of the painting.

 

 

 

 

Constantine Cherkas is most well known for his watercolor and oil landscapes with figures. Also, known for a series of floral paintings.

 

Constantine Cherkas was born Constantine Cherkasheninoff in Sokol, Russia in 1919. By the age of 9, Constantine was already an accomplished and prolific artist and at 14 he had the good fortune to apprentice under Ila Mashkov, the great the Russian Expressionist. In 1936 Constantine was the youngest artist to ever be accepted into the Moscow Academy for the Fine Arts in the advanced, graduate-level. Cherkas was one of only 30 students to be chosen out of 3,000 finalists in a Russian art competition. Although his work surpassed the other students, it was interrupted when he was captured by the Nazis and forced to work in a prison labor camp during WWII. As soon as the war ended he resumed his passion and was accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and eventually the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1950, Constantine immigrated to the US with the help of the Tolstoi Foundation and shortened his last name to Cherkas. In 1951, Constantine became friends with fellow Russian painters Nicloai Fechin and Leon Gaspard, who had been living in Taos, New Mexico, and began a life-long interest in capturing the beauty of the the southwest. The artist passed away in 2011s

 

 

 

 

 

 

Measurements; 20 in x 26 in

(50.8 cms x 66 cms) 

        

Oil on Canvas

 

 

 

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Constantine Cherkas

 

 

Constantine Cherkas (1919-2011) Born Constantine Cherkashininoff in Moscow on Aug. 5, 1919, he was the only child of artist Michael Cherkas and the former Antonina Diatloff.  At 14, he apprenticed with famed Russian colorist Ilya Mashkov and at 17, became one of the youngest students to attend the Moscow Academy of Arts.  His professors nicknamed him the "Russian Gauguin." In 1941, Mr. Cherkas married art conservator Kira Krukoff.  On their honeymoon in Kiev, they were captured by the Nazis and sent to a German labor camp. Following their release, Mr. Cherkas enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 1943. After World War II, Allied forces relocated the Cherkases to a refugee camp in Munich where Mr. Cherkas continued his studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. 

 

"Moonlight Riders" by Costantine Cherkas

 

In 1949, the couple emigrated to the United States, living in Pennsylvania before settling in Santa Monica in 1952 and building a five-decade career restoring art. Mr. Cherkas' own artistry was known for depicting time and space, said art collector Brad Bateman of Salem, Oregon.  On a single canvas, he used color to illustrate daytime in one area and night in another. "Entering his studio was like entering a sunset, it was so vibrant and vivacious and colorful," said John Bowlt, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at USC. "It was packed full of paintings. It reminded one that he was a very fertile artist."  His Russian-style chalet became a place to live, work and showcase hundreds of his oil paintings. Mr. Cherkas died of pneumonia on April 10 at Villa Pomerado Skilled Nursing in Poway.  He was 91. He was one of the last great colorists in terms of modernism, said Dan Peragine, friend and art teacher at The Winston School in Del Mar.  One of his larger impressionist pieces, depicting the 9/11 tragedy, is on display at the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey. "His color use and combination of color to create an overall emotional effect was almost sculptural," he said. "I called him a sculptor's painter." In addition to his art, Mr. Cherkas and his wife, Kira, made their living and reputation restoring master works for collectors including Dorothy Chandler, Mary Pickford, J. Paul Getty and the estate of Randolph Hearst, Jr.  They revitalized pieces by Rembrandt, El Greco, Remington, Monet, Renoir and Picasso, among others, for museums including the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Cherkases had Old World Russian techniques for restoration, including using rabbit skin glue for relining paintings," said Peragine. "Every living fiber of them echoed the Old World. With his passing, I feel like that world is lost." "The more you live with his work, the more you love it," said Bateman, who owns several of Mr. Cherkas' oils. "I never tire of a Constantine painting.  "The intensity is there, but so is a softness. You could see that he put his soul into each painting."