Art as a profession. Maya Collection and Anatoly Beckerman
ARTinvestment.RU   12 февраля 2014

April 22 at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin opened another exhibition from the series "Collections and Collectors." The exhibition - Grigoriev, Arkhipov, Anisfeld Burliuk, Korovin, Goncharova, Feshin etc.

Pushkin Museum. Pushkin , April 22 - June 1, 2014
Ul. Volhonka , 12

In the year of the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Museum of Private Collections , one of the divisions of the Pushkin Museum. AS Pushkin Museum continues to acquaint the Russian audience with the most famous collectors and their collections. April 22, 2014 in the series " Collections and Collectors ' opens the exhibition" Art as a profession . Maya Collection and Anatoly Beckerman . " The exhibition - works by Russian emigre period artists of the first half of the XX century .

Anatoly Beckerman , collector and art dealer , gallery owner "AVA ", which exists more than 30 years in New York . Works from the collection exhibited in many important art exhibitions presented in our country , " Russian Futurism and David Burliuk " (2000) and " Russian Paris " (2001) at the State Russian Museum, " American Artists from the Russian Empire" ( 2008/2009 ) at the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov gallery, " Time to collect " ( 2012) at the State Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno" and the State Russian Museum , and in 2013 from the collection of Bekkerman were exhibited , aroused great interest among the domestic audience : " Philip Maljavin " in the State Russian Museum and " Natalia Goncharova " in the State Tretyakov Gallery .

A. Beckerman was one of the organizers of the exhibition "Art , with whom I live " from the collection of Mikhail Baryshnikov , which was successfully held in October 2013 - January 2014 at the Museum of Private Collections Pushkin Museum. Pushkin .

First Russian collection of Maya and Anatoly Beckerman will be on display as a separate project. White Hall and the Main Building at the Colonnade Pushkin Museum. Pushkin's works will be placed those artists whose work is represented in the collection of monographic - "Woman with a bouquet of lilac " (1922 ) Konstantin Korovin ,« Capri I »(1910-1911) Boris Boris Anisfeld ,« Spanish Dancer "(1916 ) Natalia Goncharova ,« crab fisherman »(1922-1923) Boris Grigoriev , « Wind " (1916 ) David Burliuk and other works .

special part of the exhibition ( room number 20) amount of work , which at one time were part of the New York collection of M. and A. Beckerman , and now are in museums and private collections in Moscow and St. Petersburg . It works such as "Portrait of SI Mall" (1917 ) , « Petersburg » (1912 ) Mstislav Dobuzhinsky , « Palm Sunday on Red Square " (1917 ) Boris Kustodiev ,« David Burliuk Portrait "(1923 ) Nicholas Feshina from the collection of the State Russian Museum and" The River Seine . Screen "( 1930 ) Natalia Goncharova from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and others .

Abram Arkhipov Baba in red . 1910

Alexander Archipenko Melancholy. 1926

DAVID BURLYUK Planting rice. 1920

Natalia Goncharova Electric ornament . 1916-1917

Konstantin Korovin On the terrace . Over tea . 1916

Mikhail Larionov woman on the bench. 1902

ROBERT FALK Still Life with jug and challah . 1914

Pyotr Konchalovsky Crystal II. 1917

exhibition of works from the collection of Maya and Anatoly Beckerman will be a real discovery for the Russian public , complement representation as individual works of masters and the history of art in general .

Sources : press announcement Pushkin Museum. Pushkin Gallery «ABA» ( New York )