Aristarkh Lentulov – Monastery, 1917

1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Format: Puzzle

Size:
Width: 507 mm
Height: 685 mm
Depth: 2 mm

Colour: Multi-colour

Features:

• Premium quality blue board (specially formulated cardboard)
• 1000 precision-cut pieces for a satisfying challenge
• Complex, richly detailed imagery
• Decorative printed and textured paper finish (similar to our hardcover journals)

About the Artwork

Aristarkh Lentulov (1882–1943) was a major Russian avant-garde artist of Cubist orientation and a key figure in the Moscow School of Art. A cofounder of the Knave of Diamonds group in 1909, Lentulov helped define Russian Futurism and Cubo-Futurism.

Born in Nizhny Lomov, Penza Oblast, into the family of a rural priest, Lentulov’s early life combined religious education with artistic pursuit. His training at the Penza and Kiev art schools, followed by study under Dmitry Kardovsky in St. Petersburg, shaped his bold and experimental vision.

By the mid-1910s, Lentulov developed a distinctive style merging Cubist spatial concepts, Fauvist colour, and the decorative rhythm of Russian folk art.

Reproduced in this puzzle is his masterpiece Monastery (1917) — an extraordinary, vibrant depiction of the bishop’s courtyard in the New Jerusalem Monastery, and a prime example of Lentulov’s art at its peak.