Restaurant – Konstantin Korovin

Description

Korovin painted joy the way other artists paint suffering: with total commitment and no apology. He was drawn obsessively to nights like this one — the moment when artificial light takes over from the sun and a city becomes a completely different kind of animal, warmer and more alive and slightly dangerous in the best way. There’s a feeling most people recognise immediately in this painting: being inside the crowd, inside the light, inside the noise, and feeling — just for that hour — that everything is exactly as it should be. On large-format museum-grade canvas, the brushwork crackles with that electricity and refuses to let it go.