Win Leicester City will celebrate the Museum's exhibition
ARTinvestment.RU   04 мая 2016

The English city of Leicester is preparing to celebrate the phenomenal early victory of their players in the Premier League. The local Museum is preparing a special exhibition on "the foxes"

For the "fairy tale", as long been called the victorious March the football club Leicester, with the voltage observed all football fans: who is-то with enthusiasm, who-то with horror who-то puzzled. Team who last year miraculously was not relegated from the English Premier League in may 2016 ahead of schedule became the winner of the championship of England. For the first time in 132 years. World without stars, on a modest money, but incredible courage "Fox" roller toured with the giants of world football. They could not stop nor Tottenham, neither Chelsea nor Manchester city nor Arsenal, but no one! As reminds Interfax, "Before the beginning of the current season of the English Premier-лиги bookmakers estimated the chances that Leicester will win the League, as 1 to 5,000 and bet on the fact that the owner of Playboy magazine Hugh Hefner announced that he was a virgin, was only 1 000 to 1". Those fools who put on the "Lester" $75 early in the season, will receive about $365 000. Bookmakers save only that such were few.

to Celebrate the victory of the team is prepared the whole town. Leicester Museum New Walk Museum & Art Gallery emergency change of plans, moved the exhibition schedule to create an exhibition of the "Fearless Fox". The concept is still kept secret. But we already know that it will not be banal exposition about the history of the club, and what-то more interesting. "Fearless foxes" will open June 4, 2016.

Exhibition in honor of the "Lester" gave occasion to carefully read about the city Museum. New Walk Museum & Art Gallery that have only regional fame, was not so simple. There are several important meetings. The most significant — a collection of German expressionists and artists of this circle. In based works that managed to take to England Exle Hess — widow of the German Shoe tycoon, collecting contemporary art, Hitler declared "degenerate." Later the Museum received gifts from other collectors. Today in the collection of New Walk Museum features works by Vasily Kandinsky, Alexei Jawlensky, Alexander Archipenko, max Ernst, max Pehshteyna, Heinrich Impedance, Otto Dix, Lionel Feininger and others. Many of the names represented mainly by lottery drawing and drawings. But the real gem of the collection is the painting "the Red woman" Franz Marc — 1911, meter size, higher level.

in addition to the collection of German expressionists, Leicester Museum offers to get acquainted with a collection of ceramics by Pablo Picasso. 40 items make up the exhibition, belonged to Richard Attenborough — Director, elder brother of the famous TV presenter-натуралиста David Attenborough (remember the TV series about the evolution of "Life on Earth"?). Attenborough gained since 1954, when I first visited Picasso in his factory in Madura.

if it is not enough in the Leicester New Walk Museum there are still the dinosaurs, the art of Ancient Egypt, Zoological exhibition, and even a modern art gallery. However, all these shows this summer are doomed to remain in the shadows unplanned exposure. Tourists and citizens are waiting for the "Fearless Fox".

Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

: leicester.gov.uk, interfax.ru, lcfc.com