"The Kiss," Vsevolod Maksymovych ,1913.
Ukrainian Maksymovych (1894-1914) was a devotee of Aubrey Beardsley and other Art Nouveau stars; some of his other works really reflect a Beardsley style. In fact, he would blow up Beardsley's small-scale stylings to large canvases...and later critics remarked that he was managing to out-Beardsley Beardsley.
Biographical information about him is scant; he was only 19 when he produced most of his work, and apparently was a nudist and bodybuilder as well, but died by suicide in Moscow when he was only 20, seemingly despondent after the failure of his first one-man exhibition.
After his death, since his work was incompatible with official Soviet culture, it was shoved away into storage and forgotten until recent years. Now he's being rediscovered and reappraised as a significant talent that was lost early.
Tantalizingly, it seems he also dabbled in avant-garde film, which warms my cinephile heart.
From the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv.
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