Mikhail Tarkhanov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (4 November 1888, in Zenkov, Poltava Governorate, Imperial Russia, modern Ukraine – 12 March 1962, in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet painter known for his "Picturesque Textured Improvisations", abstract water based textured compositions. He studied at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry where he graduated in 1915. After being called to the Russian army in 1916 and 1919 as an artist-topographer and draftsman, he entered the VKhUTEMAS, the Russian state art and technical school, in 1921. His teachers were Vasili Kandinsky, Vladimir Favorsky and Nikolay Kupreyanov. He worked for many Soviet institutions as he pursued his abstract work, which were restricted in the communist Russia.

Personal exhibitions 1929 : Moscow, VKhUTEIN (former VKhUTEMAS).

1930 : Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Polygraphic Trust.

1931 : Moscow, Rare Book Museum.

1973 : Moscow, Stroganoff Arts Institute.

2016: 'Abstract Compositions', New York, Shapiro's Auctions. Curated by Masha Stroganova & Anya Litvinova.

Known Museum Collections

The Getty Center, Los Angeles, U.S.A. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, U.S.A. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. State Russian Museum, Leningrad - St. Petersburg. State (Pushkin) Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Kherson Museum of Fine Arts, Kherson, Ukraine. Kirgiz State Museum of Fine Arts, Frunze, Kirgizia. Semipalatinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Kazakhstan. Tula Museum of Fine Arts, Tula, Russia.