On July 10, a souvenir sheet dedicated to the 150th Birth Anniversary of painter Konstantin Yuon was put into postal circulation in the Russian Academy of Arts series

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).

He was born on October 12 (24), 1875, in Moscow. From 1892 to 1898, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. In 1903, he became one of the organizers of the Union of Russian Artists. He was also a member of The World of Art association.

Since 1907, he worked in the field of theater decoration; he was engaged in the design of the production of 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, with 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.

In addition to the issue of the souvenir sheet, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and special cancels for Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as illustrated covers for the souvenir sheet with a label and a First Day Cover with a cancel for St. Petersburg, and for the second emission type: an imperforated souvenir sheet made on canvas-type design paper.


Design Artist: O. Savina.
Face value: 250 rubles.
Souvenir sheet size: 130×101 mm, stamp size in the souvenir sheet: 50×50 mm.
Quantity: 16 thousand souvenir sheets (the 1-st emission type); 3.5 thousand souvenir sheets (the 2-nd emission type*).
* To be on sale as part of an illustrated cover.

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