| February Azure | |
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| Russian: Февральская лазурь | |
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| Artist | Igor Grabar |
| Year | 1904 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 142.6 cm × 84.8 cm (56.1 in × 33.4 in) |
| Location | Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
| Owner | Tretyakov Gallery |
February Azure (Russian: Февральская лазурь, romanized: Fevral'skaya lazur'), also known as February Blue,[1] is a landscape painting by Russian Post-Impressionist painter Igor Grabar. Having been inspired by wintry scenery with vibrant and diverse colours near the Pakhra river in Moscow in February 1904, Grabar completed the painting after working for two consecutive weeks in situ under an umbrella, in a trench he had dug in the snow.
February Azure was presented to the public at the second exhibition of the Union of Russian Artists which opened in Saint Petersburg in 1904. The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow purchased the painting from Grabar in 1905 after a unanimous decision of the museum's board of directors. Grabar considered February Azure a sum of several separate, lengthy observations—in a sense, a synthesis of them—and a revolutionary work that opened up a path Russian art had not explored until then.
- ^ Druzhinin, Serafim Nikolaevich (1955). The Tretyakov Gallery, a Short Guide. Foreign Languages Publishing House. p. 86. OCLC 4019473. Archived from the original on 19 July 2023. Retrieved 19 May 2023 – via Google Books.