Exhibition of Yuri Annenkov Literary Museum
ARTinvestment.RU   23 апреля 2014

The State literary Museum exhibition " Yuri Annenkov . Portraits, illustrations, and theatrical sketches from the State Literary Museum "dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the artist .

name Yuri Annenkov , an outstanding portraitist , book illustrator , theater and film designer , poet , novelist , memoirist , art theorist , widely known not only in Russia but also abroad. We can say that Annenkov lived two lives : one of them took place in Russia , which the young artist and writer left in 1924 , the second - in France, where a recognized master died in 1974. Art drawing Annenkov studied in St. Petersburg with Chagall in C. Seidenberg , in Paris his " re-training " F. Vallotton and Maurice Denis . Dacha Annenkovo ​​Kuokkala visited Gorky , Mayakovsky , C. Yesenin , and neighbors were Chukovski and . Repin . Annenkov designed productions N. Evreinov , Komissarzhevsky , N. Balieva , George Balanchine , Lifar . The artist painted Akhmatova , Benoit , Meyerhold , A. Talkers , Boris Pasternak , illustrated poem "Twelve" , discussing the details with drawings by Alexander Blok .

YURI ANNENKOV Source : goslitmuz.ru

YURI ANNENKOV Source : goslitmuz.ru

special place in his works take portraits of writers , artists , statesmen and politicians . Emigration Annenkov collaborated with such prominent filmmakers as Ophüls M. and O. Wells. Abroad revealed his literary gift : a memoir "Diary of my meetings " are a series of vivid literary portraits of Russian writers, artists and musicians. Under the pseudonym B. Temiryazev he wrote the book " A Tale of trivia " and " Torn epic ».

Works Yuri Annenkov stored in the State Literary Museum and presented in the exhibition , are solely doemigrantskomu period of his work . Some of them, such as portraits of Hodasevich , F. Sologub , Chukovskii , V. Piast , A. Duncan, widely known as entered the famous album "Yuri Annenkov . Portraits "( Pb. : Petropolis , 1922) and repeatedly reproduced in various publications. Other works are little known ( published in periodicals of the 1910s - early 1920s ), or does not know , because I have never been exhibited and published . Most graphic sheets Yuri Annenkov received the museum back in the 1930s , many of them came from the artist's first wife - actress and dancer Elena Pugacheva Annenkova .

First exhibited one of the earliest works annenkov - a picturesque portrait of writer Evgeny Chirikov . The artist recalled that I. Repin , seeing this youthful , still immature sketch said , patting him on the head : "You will be a strong portraitist ... unless sobesh the road ».

YURI ANNENKOV Source : goslitmuz.ru