Sonya is a 1904 portrait by the Russian artist Victor Stember.
Sonya is Stember's youngest daughter and is age 9 in this portrait. It is the only portrait he did of her.
This portrait can be seen exhibited at Stember's 25th Jubilee Celebration in Moscow in 1913. See photos #6 and 9. In photo #23 this painting can be seen in Stember's studio.
This painting was later made into a postcard and sold in a series of Stember paintings. Some were sold to fund a charity called 'Lubenskoye Society About the Care of Beggars.'
Postcards of Stember's work can be found on various antique postcard websites by searching under his name: Stember.
Sonya, Sofia Viktorovna Stember (1895-1946), grew up to be a mezzo-soprano. She married the musicologist Yuri Nikolaevich Tyulin, and they later divorced. Their son, Daniil Yuryevich Tyulin (1925-1972), became a conductor. A friendly caricature of Prokofiev that Sonya drew in October 1916 is kept in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.
Archival Records of This Work
This Work Appears In
- Studio photograph 6 : The 25th Anniversary Celebration of Stember's works can be enjoyed through this photograph
- Studio photograph 9 : 1913: 25th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition: paintings include: #100: Smaller version of
- Studio photograph 23 : 1914: Petrograd: The war with Germany was the reason to change the German sounding name 'S
- Studio photograph 20 : 1909. This is the first studio Stember had in St. Petersburg and was on Galernaya Street.
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