Selected works / Portrait for a collection

ShemyakinImperial Porcelain

Client: Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg
Collection: Aphorisms, drawings by Mikhail Shemyakin
Role: Portrait of Mikhail Shemyakin
Used on: The collector’s gift box, with the artist’s autograph

Mikhail Shemyakin, portrait by Alexander Gulinov — **The portrait**I

Mikhail Shemyakin × Imperial Porcelain Factory, gift box — **On the box**II

About the project

Aphorisms is a collection by the Imperial Porcelain Factory and Mikhail Shemyakin: bone-china goblets with his sharp black-and-white drawings, each with a short dedication. Every goblet comes in a collector’s box with a portrait of the artist and his autograph. The portrait is mine, and it has become the most widely published photograph of Shemyakin.

The collection

Aphorisms

Artist: Mikhail Shemyakin
Object: Variations goblet, bone china, 450 ml
Graphics: Black-and-white drawings with a dedication phrase

The portrait

Black, gold and glass

Sitter: Mikhail Shemyakin
Used on: Gift box of the series, with the autograph
Reach: His most widely published portrait

“An exclusive box decorated with a portrait of Mikhail Shemyakin and his autograph”

Imperial Porcelain Factory, product description

See on ipm.ru

Portrait Alexander Gulinov

The series

Aphorisms

Goblets, drawings and the box with the portrait

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