Today will be a press conference tomorrow at the State Tretyakov Gallery and Sculpture Park opens to the public exhibition of paintings and graphics by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the biggest artist of t

Valentin Serov Portrait of Konstantin Korovin.
1891 Oil on canvas. 111.2 x 89
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TG, March 29 - August 12, 2012
Moscow, Krimsky Val, 10, Halls № 60-61

largest exhibition project of the year, "Konstantin Korovin. Painting. The theater "dedicated to the famous painter abroad XIX - XX centuries Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939) . Artist organically adopted and reinterpreted the picturesque tradition of modern European art, earning the reputation of "the first Russian Impressionist».

The exhibition will feature about 240 of the best works from the Tretyakov Gallery, 22 Russian museums, museums of Kazakhstan and Belarus, as well as from private collections. Long-awaited and much-scale retrospective of Konstantin Korovin Gallery carries in its branches after ninety years after the first exhibition, organized in 1922 under the artist's life.

Tretyakov Gallery continues to acquaint viewers with the heyday of the Moscow school painting, for it belonged , whose exhibition with such success was in 2010/2011 , and K. Korovin, whose work best reflects the picturesque, colorful, bright palette inherent in the art of representatives of the Union of Russian Artists.

exhibition reflects the diverse activities of Konstantin Korovin in painting, theater, monumental art. Exposure within the section of easel painting is constructed in sections "Creativity 1880-90s", "Portrait", "North", "Okhotin. Rural landscapes "," Paris "," Crimea. Gurzuf "," Nocturnes, "" Still Life "," pre-revolutionary art "," Immigration ».

• Konstantin Korovin summer. Lilac.
  1895 Oil on canvas. 64.3 x 46,3
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• Konstantin Korovin winter.
  1894 Oil on canvas. 37.2 x 52,5
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to . Korovin was born in Moscow in a family of merchants, which, after the devastation turned into petty-bourgeois class. In 1875 he joined the department of architecture MUZHVZ, but almost immediately moved to the picturesque (he studied until 1886).

In early works by Konstantin Korovin particularly evident influence of his teacher AK Savrasov (« Early Spring. "1870. TG," Autumn. "1880. National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus) and Polenov , at the dacha outside Moscow where budding artist spent several summers, wrote such famous works as "Nasturtiums" (1888), "For the tea-table" (1888) (both - Museum Polenov), "The Boat" (1888. TG). Already in these works, he intuitively used impressionistic techniques, especially when it relates to the novel the film "Portrait of a chorus" (1887. TG).

• Konstantin Korovin
  Portrait of a chorus girl.
  1887 Oil on canvas. 53.2 x 41,2
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C late 1880s, Korovin began traveling to Europe, where he became acquainted with the modern Western European art. Without the influence of Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir, he was to depict female figures against the light in the contre, placing them on the balcony, in the opening of the door is open or in a landscape, such as in the film "In the country" (1895. TG). In the works of the artist's late-1890s ("Paper lanterns." 1896. TG, "The Baths". 1890s. Private collection) revealed features decorativism, expressed in brightness, boldness of color and skillful execution.

• Konstantin Korovin
  paper lanterns.
  1898 Oil on canvas. 79.8 x 33
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Making the trip to Paris, Korovin got a special charm of the city, with its unmatched aesthetics. He skillfully managed to convey the life of the French capital during the hours of early morning awakening, but most of all at night, shining lights in the decoration of the streets and boulevards ("Paris. Boulevard des Capucines." 1902, 1906 and 1911, "Paris in the morning." 1906. All - TG) .

• Konstantin Korovin
  Paris. Boulevard des Capucines.
  1906 Oil on canvas. 73.3 x 60,2
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in Paris to . Korovin became interested in symbolism, and returned to Russia, visited the famous lectures MA Durnovo, talked with the poet KD Balmont. During these years he wrote the film "North Idyll" (1892. TG) and "The Muse" (1890. TG).

• Konstantin Korovin
  North idyll.
  1886 Oil on canvas. 113 x 153
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Konstantin Korovin, along with Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin AY , SV Malyutin , Alexander Benois , L. Bakst belongs to the reformers of the theater. They came to the play as a single stage space, which is equally important role of the scenery, costumes, music and dramatic performances. The gift of a theatrical decorator Konstantin Korovin appeared in 1885 in the works for the Russian Private Opera Mamontov. In 1900, Korovin led workshop theater and set design of the Imperial theaters - the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. For two decades, the artist has designed over 80 ballets, operas and dramas. Scenic images of the characters created by him for the singers, Fyodor Chaliapin, Sobinov, AV Nezhdanova, ballet dancers, SV Fedorova, Geltser, dramatic actors AP Lenski, M. Yermolova, gained general acceptance.

• CONSTANTINE Korovin
  Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin.
  1905 Oil on canvas. 65 x 46,1
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for the exhibition of various museums selected the best set and costume designs for the ballet "Don Quixote" by Ludwig Minkus, "Horse-Horse" T. Puni, "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, his operas "Demon" by A. Rubinstein, "Khovanshchina" M . Mussorgsky, "Sadko" and "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" by Rimsky-Korsakov. The real opening to the public will show two unique, miraculously preserved scenery and costumes for the opera by Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Golden Cockerel (staged in 1934, the theater was in Vichy, France). All material on this stage the play at one time became an opera singer, a longtime performer of the Astrologer GI Raisov. Later the collection was bought by the grandson of the artist Polenov AA Ljapin, and in 1986 donated it to the GTSTM them. Bakhrushin. The exhibition will be presented for the first time the original scenery for this play "Stan Shemakhan Queen" and "Capital City».

important in the creative biography K.Korovin was a period of life in Okhotin. In 1897 the artist purchased land near Pereslavl pine floor and built a house, which is often visited by F. Chaliapin, Valentin Serov , Sergei Vinogradov , Maxim Gorky. In Okhotin the artist was born on a particular genre - Nocturne.

• Konstantin Korovin Roses and violets.
  1912 Oil on canvas. 92.3 x 73,2
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Crimean K.Korovin landscapes constitute a separate page of his work. In 1904 the artist came to visit Yalta hard bolevshih Chekhov ("Cafe in Yalta." 1905. TG), and later bought land on the shore of the Gulf of Gurzuf. According to the project in 1910 by Konstantin Korovin was built villa "Salammbo," which offers a beautiful view of the sea ("Balcony in the Crimea." 1910. Ulyanovsk Regional art museum). Impressions of the Crimean markets, with their wealth and beauty gave rise to a still life ("Fish, wine and fruit." 1916 and 1917. Both - TG, "Fish." 1916. RM).

Konstantin Korovin fish, wine and fruit. 1916 Oil on canvas. 64.7 x 86,8 Source: Press Release TG

Konstantin Korovin at the open window portrait of the daughters of Fyodor Chaliapin. 1916 Oil on canvas. 87.5 x 67 Source: Press Release TG

Korovin is known not only as a painter but also as an architect and decorator. In the monumental art shows four out of ten panels, executed by the artist for the pavilion, "Far North" Nizhny Novgorod Art and Industrial Exhibition in 1896, specially restored for the exhibition. They were ordered by philanthropist and industrialist Mamontov, who, dreaming about the development and popularization of the distant and rich region, has contributed travel Konstantin Korovin and Valentin Serov in the North in 1894. A few years after the exhibition at the suggestion of the Nizhny Novgorod SIMamontov mural adorned the walls of the main lobby of the Yaroslavl station in Moscow, and in 1961 were transferred to the Tretyakov Gallery. In the big picture "Hammerfest. The Northern Lights "(1894-1895. TG) summarized the artist's impressions from a trip to the North (Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and others).

Konstantin Korovin Bazaar at the pier in Arkhangelsk. Panel for the pavilions, "Far North" All-Russia industrial and art exhibition 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod. 1896 Oil on canvas. 237 x 352 Source: Press Release TG

One of the discoveries of the exhibition - decorative panel "Old Convent" (1906. TG). Enrolling in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1946, it has long been kept in the vaults of the shaft. In the style of the frieze (more than seven meters in length) discern the characteristics of modernity.

After the revolution, deprived of the studio, canvases and paints, K. Korovin was a difficult situation. Having moved from Moscow to Ostrovno shore of the lake in the Tver region Udomlya, the artist first began to write from memory, performing small-miniature works on cardboard. In this same difficult period of his life he has created wonderful paintings, mostly portraits of close friends: "Portrait of Fyodor Chaliapin" (1921. GTSMMK them. Glinka), "Portrait of EB Vakhtangov" (1922. Museum Flat-EB Vakhtangov), etc. In 1923 the artist and his family went to Germany and then France, where he spent his last years of his life.

to show an album catalog, surpassing the number of pieces of the exhibition. It consisted of forty-seven of the museum collections of museums in Russia and neighboring countries.

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