01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings - With Footnotes, #180

Georgij Aleksandrovic Lapsin, (Russian, 1885–1950) 

LA VOILE ROUGE/ Red Sails 

Oil on canvas. 

21 3/4 x 32 in. (55.2 x 81.3cm)

Private collection

The typical, rusty-red colour of the flax sails was due to the dressing used to treat the sails that were permanently aloft, traditionally made from red ochre, cod oil, urine and seawater. The red ochre was there to block the ultra-violet in the sunlight from degrading the sails (much as lamp-black was used in the sail dressing for the Norfolk wherries), but sails that were stowed away such as jibsails were usually left untreated. More on Red Sail

Georgi Alexandrovich Lapchine was born in Moscow in 1885. He was a painter and graphic artist. In the early 1900s he studied at the Stroganov’s College. In 1906 he traveled to Paris where studied for three years in the studios of Cormonne and Lermit. Upon his return to Moscow he participated in the exhibition of the Independent in 1910. Lapchine became a member of the group called “Svobodnoye Tvorchestvo” (“Free Art”) (1911-1917). During Soviet times he participated in the first and second exhibitions of the Union of the Moscow artists (1918 and 1919) and at the First Russian art exhibition in Berlin in 1922. In 1920s Lapchine settled in Paris where actively exhibited at galleries and salons. Lapchine died in Paris in 1950.

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