| Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov | |
| Native Name: | Михаи́л Миха́йлович Тарха́нов |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Birth Date: | November 4, 1888 |
| Birth Place: | Zinkiv, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Date: | March 12, 1962 (aged 74) |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Education: | Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry |
| Occupation: | Painter |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Tarkhanov (4 November 1888, in Zenkov, Poltava Governorate, Imperial Russia, modern Ukraine – 12 March 1962, in Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet painter known for his "Picturesque Textured Improvisations", abstract water based textured compositions. He studied at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry where he graduated in 1915. After being called to the Russian army in 1916 and 1919 as an artist-topographer and draftsman, he entered the VKhUTEMAS, the Russian state art and technical school, in 1921. His teachers were Vasili Kandinsky, Vladimir Favorsky and Nikolay Kupreyanov. He worked for many Soviet institutions as he pursued his abstract work, which were restricted in the communist Russia.[1]
1929 : Moscow, VKhUTEIN (former VKhUTEMAS).
1930 : Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Polygraphic Trust.
1931 : Moscow, Rare Book Museum.
1973 : Moscow, Stroganoff Arts Institute.
2016: 'Abstract Compositions', New York, Shapiro's Auctions. Curated by Masha Stroganova & Anya Litvinova.