Konstantin Yuon (1875-1958) was a Russian and Soviet painter, a master of landscape painting, a stage designer, an art theorist, an educator and a professor. He was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1926), a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1945), an Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1947), a People's Artist of the USSR (1950) and a Winner of the Stalin Prize, First Class (1943).
Since 1907, he worked in the field of theater decoration, designing the set for the Boris Godunov opera in Paris within Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. Before the revolution, the main subject of his creative work was urban landscapes of Russian cities (Moscow, Sergiev Posad, Nizhny Novgorod, etc.) performed in a distinctive style imbued with light and broad perspectives, featuring churches, women in folk costumes, and traditional Russian household items. For example, far-famed is his painting Domes and Swallows (1921–1922).
In 1925, Yuon became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AARR). From 1948 to 1950, he was the Director of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
From 1952 to 1955, he lectured as a professor at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, as well as at a number of other educational institutions (the Repin Institute in Leningrad, the Correspondence People's University of Arts in Moscow).
The postage stamp provides a fragment of painting Domes and Swallows (1921–1922) from the collection of the Yaroslavl Art Museum; the margins of the souvenir sheet feature a portrait of the painter. The background design makes use of a fragment of painting The Interior (1907) from the collection of the Kroshitsky Sevastopol Art Museum.
The composition of the souvenir pack in cover “150th Birth Anniversary of K. Yuon” includes:
- postal block №3446 “Russian Academy of Arts. 150th Birth Anniversary of K. Yuon (1875–1958), a painter”;
- FDC with cancellation in St. Petersburg “Russian Academy of Arts. 150th Birth Anniversary of K. Yuon (1875–1958), a painter”;
- vignette.
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