Amedeo Modigliani painting, which depicts a portrait of the artist Marevna (Mary-Vorobyova Stebelskoy) is not a fake. Insists on this guide Pushkin Museum of Fine, which is now displayed picture

Amedeo Modigliani Portrait of Marevna. 1919
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Amedeo Modigliani painting, which depicts a portrait of the artist Marevna (Mary-Vorobyova Stebelskoy) is not a fake . In this, as reported by RIA Novosti , insists Pushkin Museum of Fine guide, which is now displayed picture.

November 10 edition of The Art Newspaper, with reference to the Russian collector who wished to remain anonymous, wrote that the picture may be fake. The collector told the publication that he wanted to get work in 2006, but after examination of the Swiss Institute for Research in the Arts changed my mind. The experts of the Institute have found a painting pigments synthesized in 1940, then as Modigliani died in 1920.

Agency cites Andrei Tolstoy, Pushkin Museum deputy director and curator of the exhibition "Paris School", in which the picture is posted and Modigliani. According to him, GMII is a huge amount of documents that certify the authorship of Modigliani. These documents provided the Pushkin Museum "Modigliani Institute - Archive, Paris - Rome", which deals with attribution of his works. Tolstoy noted that the museum has a provenance and confirmation, and analysis of pigments. < /p>

According to the curator, Pushkin is not the first time working with the Institute of Modigliani in 2007. with the participation of the Institute organized an exhibition "Meeting with Modigliani." Tolstoy suggested that the collector, who eventually did not buy the product Modigliani, just wanted to discredit the fact that he "did not get».

Tolstoy also pointed out that the publication of The Art Newspaper has accompanied an article about Modigliani's wrong illustration, which is currently absent from the site. Instead of a portrait Marevna there was published an image of Jeanne Hebuterne. Consequently Tolstoy concluded that the accuracy of the information "immediately lost».

The Art Newspaper in an article dated November 10, also led Pushkin Museum director comments Irina Antonova, who expressed confidence that the museum is the original.

The exhibition "Paris School", to which also belonged to the artist herself and Marevna, opened on September 20. It until 20 November. Modigliani painting will remain among the exposed pictures.

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around Modigliani paintings from the exhibition "School of Paris "in the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin about the dispute

publication The Art Newspaper published an article on the canvas Amedeo Modigliani (Amedeo Modigliani)« Portrait Marevna "takes part in" School of Paris : 1905-1932, "which runs until November 20 in Moscow Pushkin Museum. Pushkin. curator of the exhibition was the deputy director of the Pushkin Museum Andrei Tolstoy, the canvas comes from a private collection. The Art Newspaper says that several people had doubts about the authenticity of represented in the exhibition as written by Modigliani in 1919, the portrait painter Maria Vorobyova-Stebelskoy , better known as Marevna. < /p>

In particular, doubts about the authenticity of the Modigliani expressed as the newspaper writes, without naming names, "one of the leading Russian collectors," as well as several other members of the national art community. (Well, in general, also without names and with tact. But after viewing the exhibition, many "zashushukali" Modigliani about this, but The Art Newspaper once again decided to bring the situation first publicized (in a scandalous catalogs Goncharova, we recall, they also spoke of the first). - AI .).

Collector, who decided not to be named, told The Art Newspaper, which wanted to buy the portrait in 2006 at a price of $ 3 million but dropped the idea after it became available the results of scientific tests conducted by the Swiss research institute of art (Swiss Institute for Art Research). «After 40 days I have received from the Institute of the test results, which means that if you create a fabric used a number of synthetic pigments produced after 1940 ", - told the collector (as we know, Modigliani died in 1920). The Collector also said that the angry appearance of the exhibition at the Pushkin Museum.

The owner of the gallery, "Our Artists" Natalia Kournikova, who participated in organizing a large exhibition of works Marevna in the Tretyakov Gallery in 2003, also expressed doubts about the authenticity of work. "She did not like the Marevna - says Kournikova of the woman depicted in the portrait - it's not characteristic of Modigliani. In his portraits, there are always similarities [to the original]. There are none at all. In his memoirs, Marevna also never mentions that the Modigliani to paint her portrait ».

Christian Parisot (Christian Parisot), president of the Institute of Modigliani (Modigliani Institute) in Rome, which has legally confirmed right of attribution of works by Modigliani, insists that" Portrait of Marevna "- a genuine work of the artist. He denies any claim to authenticity work, and in confirmation of authorship Modigliani cites numerous documents, including the testimony itself Marevna, stating that she posed for a portrait painter, and the results of scientific tests.

«Recent Chemical and spectrographic tests showed that the foundation, canvas and all the paint used to create canvases date from the time when the artist lived, and are similar to those that used them to create other paintings, "- says Parisot. According to him, He has no other research data that would argue otherwise.

been controversial portrait was included in the Christian Parisot released their catalog on-Raisonné Amedeo Modigliani (Catalogue Raisonné A. Modigliani, Volume II, 1991 - Catalogue Raisonné, A. Modigliani, Volume II, 1991), and also participated in other exhibitions, as the work of Modigliani. Thus, the portrait was a part of a large exhibition "Modigliani", which opened in 2010 and lasted until February of this year in the building of the City Municipality of Prague. Modigliani Institute Experts point out that during the life of Marevna, the 1983 portrait participated in an exhibition at the Museum of Paris Bourdelle (Musée Bourdelle).

Parisot and refers to the opinion of the deceased art Ambrogio Cheroni (Ambrogio Ceroni), one of the most respected experts on Modigliani, who considered the product of genuine. Parisot says that he has written evidence of the scientist's widow Angela Bernardelli-Cheroni (Angela Bernardelli Ceroni) of 19 June 1980, which confirmed that Cheroni, who died in 1970, during the life of a true portrait acknowledged.

According to the director of the Pushkin Museum Irina Antonova, it was aware of rumors, walking in the picture, but believes that such discussions are useful because they may lead to the discovery of new facts about the work, which is doubtful provenance. Antonova herself believes work genuine. "I have on this subject is no doubt," says she. In an interview with The Art Newspaper Antonov also noted the important the role of exhibitions of the Paris school, which showed Russian audiences that Russian artists were an integral part of artistic life in Montparnasse at the beginning of the XX century.

In Russia there are practically no works of Modigliani: the Pushkin Museum has two paintings artist, but no one of his paintings. In the article The Art Newspaper says that it is rumored that the disputed portrait for sale with the price of EUR 9 million. The publication writes that, according to a source close to the Ministry of Culture, Work, likely to be purchased and donated to the museum by some sponsors.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru