Two Ladies in the Park (1919) by Konstantin Somov Kitchen Art Print half-hidden by sunlight and shadow

half-hidden by sunlight and shadow

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Two Ladies in the Park (1919) by Konstantin Somov Kitchen Art Print half-hidden by sunlight and shadowKonstantin Somovs Two Ladies in the Park (1919) turns aristocratic leisure into a quiet little performance. Catalogued as oil on canvas at the Nizhny Novgorod State Arts Museum, it shows two women reclining on blankets in a manicured park, watched over by trees, statues and theatrical stillness. The sitters are not securely identified. Somov, a Mir Iskusstva artist, often used beauty, artifice and coded desire as private language. Here, queerness is