# Mikhail Tarkhanov artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/mikhail-tarkhanov/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:28:53.910Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Russian, Soviet
- Movements: Abstract art
- Common media: Water-based textured compositions, Painting, Graphic art and design

## Portrait

![Mikhail Tarkhanov](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Tarkhanov0065.TIF/lossy-page1-500px-Tarkhanov0065.TIF.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tarkhanov0065.TIF

## About Mikhail Tarkhanov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (1888–1962) is identified in public authority data as a Russian and Soviet painter, while a Ukrainian-language record also describes him as a Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist and designer. He is chiefly associated with abstract, water-based textured compositions called Picturesque Textured Improvisations. The available biography reports that he graduated from the Stroganov school in Moscow in 1915 and entered VKhUTEMAS in 1921, placing his training within an important environment for early Soviet art and design. Tarkhanov also undertook institutional work while continuing an abstract practice that was reportedly constrained in the Soviet period. Collectors may therefore encounter his name in connection with paintings, experimental textured compositions, graphic works, or design material. Because the collected sources differ in how they characterize his national and professional identity, records should be matched through dates, name forms, medium, technique, and documented provenance rather than by name alone.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Tarkhanov include abstract water-based compositions distinguished by textured, improvisational surfaces, as well as paintings, graphic art, and design work. Auction or appraisal records may use broader category labels, so a work's materials, format, inscriptions, and documented history should be checked before it is compared with examples assigned to his Picturesque Textured Improvisations.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal of a work attributed to Tarkhanov should first establish whether its medium and technique correspond to his documented abstract, water-based textured practice or to the graphic and design activity mentioned by another source. The distinction among paintings, experimental compositions, graphic works, and design material may affect which auction comparables are relevant. Identity matching also deserves attention because public records describe Tarkhanov with different national and occupational labels. Appraisily's public artist page indicates an auction-record context, but the collected response did not provide individual lot descriptions or results. Any valuation should therefore rely on verified attribution and on genuinely comparable public sales, with their sale dates, realized prices, work types, and supporting catalog information examined directly.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. For this profile, identity evidence is limited and the collected auction-page response did not expose lot-level data, so conclusions should remain provisional until stronger catalog and sale documentation is reviewed.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16719171
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/1237170101400812500008/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023124680
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tarkhanov_(painter)
- Wikipedia: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/mikhail-tarkhanov/