Moscow Museum of Modern Art, contrary to the Paris of Chagall, argues that Japan has brought to the original paintings

Located in the Japanese city of Osaka Suntory Museum will not show on came from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMSI) exhibition «Spring Russian avant-garde» three canvas Chagall. The authenticity of these works is not confirmed by the Paris Committee of Chagall, the Agency France Presse, referring to Masao Kotani, press attache of the Tokyo museum Bunkamura.

Three controversial work - «Female portrait» (1908), «Family» (1911-1912) and «Violinist» - has previously been shown in the above-mentioned Bunkamura museum, the first of four Japanese assembly, which MMSI developed a program «Spring Russian avant-garde». It advised the Directorate Bunkamura Chagall Committee in Paris on a disputed attribution of paintings.

Executive Director MMSI Vasili Tsereteli in an interview with the correspondent of «Lenty.ru» called the event «working time» and explained that the three disputed works do not pass through Paris Shagal fund, so there can not attest to their authenticity. But the artist in the 1960's and 1970's, has certified that it is - indeed his earliest paintings.

Source: lenta.ru