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Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky's subject bears heavily on a traditional Russian subject. Gypsy Girl defies the tradition of Romanticism and neo-Classicism, which dominated Russian art in the first half of the nineteenth century. As a founding member of Peredvizhniki, or ‘The Wanderers', a group of artists who aimed to bring art into life, like their contemporaries in literature and in music, such as Feodor Dostoyevsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff, respectively, Makovsky's painting is a strong response to Russia's traditional Slavic heritage.
The painting is signed upper right in Cyrillic: 'V. Makovsky'.
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