Based on the rare early material, the exhibition "nicknamed the Beast" was a real gift for all admirers of talent of the artist

On the birthday of underground art legend remembered by many. But only in Moscow gallery "Seasons" on Sretensky Boulevard Zvereva managed to hold an exhibition in November - the 80th anniversary of Anatoly Kalashnikov. Based on the rare early material, the exhibition is "Nicknamed the Beast" was a real gift for all lovers of artistic talent. On the Phenomenon of Zverev's plan for the project, supervisory tasks and features exhibition curator told ARTinvestment.RU Stupina Victoria, owner of Gallery "Seasons" Lyudmila Lisin, as well as an expert, a connoisseur of art and a connoisseur of the outstanding expressionist Valery Silaev .

< /a> Victoria Stupin, Valery Silaev, Vladimir Bogdanov, AI Photo by Konstantin Babulina, AI

< /a> Ludmila Lisin and Valery Silaev Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

< strong> ARTinvestment.RU: Victoria, works in this exhibition are from private collections, which had previously not present. Tell me how it was formed and who the owner?

Stupina Victoria : The exhibits come from the collection of David Eduardovich Goldferta. In 1987 he went to France and only recently returned to Russia. All items in the collection were acquired prior to 1987: Eighty percent of the work purchased from Pauline Lobachevsky and its immediate surroundings, and the rest - the folder earlier works, bought in Igor Markevich, shortly before departure. After 1987, no one thing in the collection is not acquired. Collection have never been exhibited, except for 20 portraits that were exhibited at the House of Nashokin in 2007. In 2002 the collection was based on an album. Unfortunately, the preparation of a professional album has watched its contents are not, so the pages and got some fake papers (forgery went from hand to hand during the life of Anatoly Kalashnikov, and this has become an integral part of the legend Zvereva. Preserved evidence that some of his friends he blessed in this fishery, such as "the old man will be tight - work" under me "». - AI .).

AI: A to This exhibition catalog was not published?

B. Stupina : We have prepared a set of postcards with reproductions of the best works, equipped with the statements of the Zverev. Anatoly T. is so extraordinary man, and that for the exhibition had to be sure to come up with something special. I literally laid on the floor, pictures of all the papers, looked at them for hours, over time, some associations. Then I took a book of memoirs about him by his contemporaries, then - a great success for us - Valery force is transmitted to us the diaries and notebooks Zvereva.

AI: Valery, by the way, but widely known handwritten autobiography and how many treatises preserved authentic texts Zvereva?

Valery Silaev : In addition to poetry, is a treatise on the game of checkers, there are tracts for painting - they are stored in Igor Anatolyevich Kuznetsov, who is going to donate the entire archive Tretyakov Gallery. The texts from this archive were never published. They are numerous, the whole suitcase.

AI: What a miracle they survived?

In . C. : A lot of what remained. For example, the marine form in which T. served in the Navy. When Oksana M. Aseeva died, she had a text Zvereva, and another part was in an apartment in Sviblovo, which received Anatoly T. with his mother. From there, Igor Kuznetsov, a later and picked up. He himself was not a collector, but rather a legal representative, friend, confidant. He kept and savings books, which Oksana M. bequeathed. Kuznetsov himself did not write memoirs, but has recently published a facsimile of portraits Daddy Oksana Mikhailovna.

The exhibition has several original texts Zvereva, a closed window. But with them, made copies, which can hold in your hand and look through the visitors. There is, in particular, a fun "amorous diary" Zverev, with the numbers of girls with whom he became acquainted. Summary table of the "Tanya - Metro - escalator».

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

AI: What material do you think of this show shock ? Why was not there before?

VS : Early works. They saw very few. This work 1958, 1961, 1963 - that, apparently, had George Dionisovicha Kostaki. Pauline Lobachevsky suggests that Kostaki sold them Markevich.

AI: How long in the works of Zverev's experts believe the most valuable?

VS : Prior to 1966, so he Zverev said. And then he became a "people's artist." In general, it can not fit into the framework. There have been outbreaks in the late work. He and in 1986 did wonderful things. One of his last works - "Resurrection" - is an amazing abstract thing. She was in Kuznetsova and published in a directory.

AI: It is known that the animal has left tens of thousands of jobs. His legacy is scattered, and the systematic No one did. Can this lead to the conclusion that the directory-Raisonné, or at least a set of paintings by Anatoly T. will not ever have?

VS : I collect stuff, but directory of my life is unlikely to emerge. Apart from my archive, an archive of Sergey Alexandrov. We used to collect very much. We search all directories lifetime, all publications, has watched all and trying to organize. Still engaged in this Pauline I. Lobachevsky, but by itself. And we work with Alexandrov coordinate. And so, still very much Vladimir Nemukhin know, and do many other artists of the sixties will remember the work Zvereva. I think that in the future will gather quite a catalog of the bulk of the work. Another thing is that such a directory will always be open and will be complemented and supplemented.

AI: works on canvas with Zvereva rarity. But you once told me that he has paintings on canvas from the World of Art. There would be a puzzle for future research. Tell us more?

VS : In the Tretyakov Gallery has worked great art historian Yuri Ivanovich Esin. Bibliophile, collector and owner of a large collection of Zvereva. And he was friends with Julia Grigorievna Arapova (Kapitanova), painter, pupil of Pavel Filonov. It was exhibited under the pseudonym Julian Koltsov . Arapov was married to theater designer Anatoly Arapov, who exhibited with the "Blue Rose" and "World of Art". After he left the canvases, which, after the death of Julia Grigorievna went to Yuri Ivanovich Esin. He handed them to Zverev, and Anatoly T. wrote them. So there is some work to Zvereva's these old miriskusnicheskih canvases of the last century.

Linens at Zvereva rarity. In those days, preparing a canvas painter himself, requiring discipline and living conditions. It is now possible to come in and buy art gallery primed canvas on a stretcher. And then it was necessary and prokleivat, and primed itself. As a rule, is able to afford or artists who were invited to his Zvereva (pictures painted on the "master's" canvas, where, in the workshops, as a rule, and stayed. - AI .), Or people fanatically devoted talent as Kostaki, who bought his canvases. And so, much of the painting was done on cardboard Podolsk factory, which could easily buy at the time. And buy her the same set krasochek to recommend Zverev.

Valery force at the exhibition" Nicknamed the Beast »Photo Vladimir Bogdanov AI

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

AI: He walks the bike, at the end of life Zverev was fabulously rich, but concealed it, and his lifestyle is not affected. Is it believable?

VS : Money, including the sale of villas for Nikolina Gora, Anatoly T. bequeathed Oksana M. . Generally, it is better to know Igor Kuznetsov, he kept passbooks. But you remember what it was time. 1985-1986 year: what you can spend it? Say, the beast that was fabulously rich - it is unlikely.

AI: I asked about it in search of evidence that the image Zvereva-wanderer - not from poverty, but it a clear moral choice.

VS : Yes, it was for him the way of protection. From Soviet rule. In order not to beat him. He was afraid that the police will take away and beaten. In addition, while the criminal was an article for parasitism. And he's a freelance artist, he has no identity, that he works in a factory. Hence, a parasite, loafer. Loafers planted. Its saved that made him a witness Nemukhin city committee schedules, which he always lost. But the witness appeared only after 1976. Zverev is not a member of the Artists Union. So, he always wanted a piece of paper to confirm their employment. Therefore, the external image of shocking - it was a defensive reaction. Plus a fad it.

AI: On the whims of nature and Zvereva also conflicting evidence remained. What he was: kind, clever?

VS : It seems to me good. His citations that accompany the work in this exhibition, much of help to understand him as a person - other than the fact that this exhibition shows us a great artist. I knew him well enough to judge whether it was tricky. In life, we talked a little: there was a big age difference, plus I had no addiction to alcohol. We were introduced to Yuri Ivanovich Esin, showed his first work. At that time, no one seen anything like it. Can you imagine what anguish was in the Soviet exhibition halls? It was 1978, I was 20 years old. And I did later turned to art, then I more interested in music. So I always liken Zvereva with Charlie Parker - see this as a direct analogy. Both the great improvisers. He and the other - with their quirks. Charlie Parker cut off their noses at new shoes so that they to him, "not pressed". And Anatoly T. shirt inside out, seamy, that the seams "no rubbing" and also "the old man, in all of these joints is going to muck».

Konstantin Babulin, AI, and Valery force at the exhibition" Nicknamed the Beast » Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov, AI

AI: The audience loved Zvereva in life? As far as he was popular?

VS : Zverev was a legend in his lifetime. And he was extraordinarily popular with foreign representatives of the diplomatic corps. Recently, the Swedish auction were sold two portraits of the second secretary of the French Embassy. He recalled how Anatoly T. was brought to the embassy under the rear seat of the embassy car. It was just 1963.

I remember well the lifetime exhibition Zvereva 1984. A Minor in Georgian in those days there were literally at all. The queues lined up at the exhibition. By the way, in 1984, when there was an exhibition at the Little Georgia, he's portraits of the public drawing for one ruble. And for three rubles - chic watercolor portrait. Plus your ink and your paper. Yes, it took 5 minutes. I glanced at one time - and immediately.

AI: He promised to refer the matter to our editor: why in the works of the sixties so prevalent theme of cocks? In Zverev, Yakovlev, Nemukhin, Kazarin many others?

VS : I do not know, but I can imagine. In Zvereva was themed "blank" - cat-horse-cock, because usually after the portrait was following order "draw anything". He recently very mayalsya it. The story of roosters is not clear. In Victor Kazarina I can understand that they have worked for a couple with Zverev, big cocks wrote. By the way, they exhibit "Zverev - Kazarin" in the hall of the Metro "Kaluga" I remember well. Zverev is still in joint work with Arseny Seduginym, war poet who wrote children's books.

AI: How accurate can be considered a story that his wife planted Zverev and then draw sign these papers?

VS : I have heard that Lucy, the first wife Zvereva, wrote a very talented watercolor that Zverev signed them. But how reliable it is, I do not know. I was a little boy. But Lucy work I've seen with my own eyes at locations Igor Kuznetsov Anatolevicha when disassembled work. I went to pick work together with other officers of the graphics (GTG. - AI .). Of these folders more than 100 works were purchased by the Tretyakov Gallery. A lot of work Igor presented. It was in 1987, shortly after the death of Anatoly Kalashnikov.

AI: Why do friends Zverev forgery?

VS : Net businesses. There were some cases when a foreign operation was signed by Zverev, I have seen such work. There are generally five main arms, forged Zvereva, which I can identify with. But there are stray, when nobody knows who did. But fake Zvereva made during his lifetime.

AI: We are calling on our readers to be careful, make recommendations as to distinguish the most notorious forgery. For example, teach that the animal does not fully paint the background, and used the background stood out as the surface of the complementary color. Can you give some other more rapid methods of determining a fake? For example, I was apprehensive neat signature.

VS : No, neat signature, he had - in the early drawings I saw a very neat, almost no capital letters. On the painting to look like a signature affixed. In addition to "AZ", it is also completely "beast." If you directly from the tube, which he often did, it would be pressed into the canvas. He did so expressively, with pressure, and probably will not even show traces of lead from the neck tube. This is the most primitive. If the signature is on top, gently textured, like spaghetti, it's not exactly Zverev did. Well, first of all need to watch the picture. It is usually a great figure in the works. Catches a lot of terrible portraits of women - as a rule, it is a fake, because women do not Zverev terrible at drawing, even ugly.

AI: I've seen potekshie portraits, blurred eyes. Do not be confused?

VS : So what? It has been so. I saw a portrait of Yuri Ivanovich Esin, which flowed oil. Zverev, on this occasion was very upset, but nothing he could do already. We must look a picture. Should be a big nasmotrennost. Often, even at ninety percent of cases, it happens that all is well understood already in the picture on the Internet. And there are special cases in which necessarily must look alive. So it was, for example, when selecting works for this exhibition. Because the photos make the image plane, and the specialist to see the texture.

AI: Advise people to seek advice about the authenticity of Zverev? You will have your fund Zvereva? But this did not happen.