Konstantin Yuon, "Winter of 1941", gouache on board, 18 1/2 x 25 in. Konstantin Yuon (1875 – 1958) was a noted Russian painter and theatre designer .He co-founded the Union of Russian Artists and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia.Konstantin Yuon started as an Impressionist landscape and genre painter with a Symbolist note. Later he toyed with the ideas of lyrical landscape mixed with the imitations of Palekh miniature and Icon arts. To the end of his life he became a strict socialist realism artist, producing paintings like Parade on the Red Square on November 7, 1941.