Nikolai Sapunov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov was a Russian painter. He was born in Moscow and studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture under Isaac Levitan, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg under Kiseliov.Life
He painted sets for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow based on designs by Korovin, as well as for Moscow Art Theatre, the sets and costumes for Meyerhold's 1906 production of Alexander Blok's The Puppet Show, and theatres of Vera Komissarzhevskaya and experimental Theatre of Alexandr Tairov. His best known paintings are still lifes with flowers and china.
At the end of his life he began a series of ironic genre pictures, which he left unfinished, as he wished to go abroad. Nikolai Sapunov drowned in a boating accident in Terioki, Finland at the age of 32.
