The window is often used as a metaphorical device to indicate a portal to another world, as well as to the future. In Russian culture, windows also became a favorite symbolic device widely utilized by the realists of the 19th century and by the Avant-garde artists of the 20th century.
1. Valentin Serov, “Girl with Peaches: Portrait of V.S. Mamontova”. 1886
2. Valentin Serov, “At the Window”. 1886
3. Viktor Borisov-Musatov, “Moonlit Night. Open Window”. 1892
4. Boris Kustodiev, “At the Window. Portrait of I.B. Kustodieva”. 1910
5. Marc Chagall, “Window in the Country”. 1915
6. Marc Chagall, “Evening at the Window”. 1950
7. Zinaida Serebryakova, “View from the Window. Neskuchnoye”. 1910
8. Zinaida Serebryakova, “On the Terrace in Kharkov”. 1919
9. Pyotr Konchalovsky, “Balaklava. The Window”. 1929
10. Pyotr Konchalovsky, “The Window of the Poet”. 1935
11. Alexander Labas, “In an Airplane”. 1936
12. Alexander Deineka, “The Restoration of Rostselmash: Sketch for a panel”. 1940s
13. Alexander Gerasimov, “A Summer Day”. 1950
14. Tatiana Yablonskaya, “Morning”. 1954
15. Tatiana Yablonskaya, “Evening, Old Florence”. 1973
16. Igor Grabar, “At the Dacha”. 1954
17. Yury Pimenov, “Waiting”. 1959
18. Yuri Raksha, “My Mother”. 1969
19. Tair Salakhov, “Bright Morning, Moscow Region”. 1986
20. Ivan Chuikov, “Window”. 2000s
