Unknown pages of N. A. Rusakov’s creation. The portrait of I. I. Nogtev (1936). The comparison of the model and the image

The author continues research on the professional art of the southern Urals. The archive documents, literary works in various state and private funds, and compositions are analyzed. All together they are sources of research on creative works of prominent artists of the Southern Urals - artist N. A. Rusakov (1888—1941) and engraver I. I. Nogtev (1886—1955). The pivot for creative works comprehension and artists’ contact was the portrait of I. I. Nogtev painted by N. A. Rusakov in 1936. The analysis of this portrait entailed the discovery of unique connection of historical time of the first third of 20 c. and the art, the connection of essential path of art development in the southern urals. The analysis enabled to specify the problem of a genre “portrait of an artist” and reveal creative principles as a fragment of monographic studies.