Wooden two-story house donated to the Museum by the artist's widow Galina Manevich. As the Director of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak, in the public funding of the new branch was denied, so all hope for sponsors.

Studio Steinberg want to turn into art-резиденцию for artists, a venue for various activities associated with the work of Steinberg and his circle of artists, the history of Tarusa. Summer weekend workshop will be open to visitors.

In the house of Steinberg have a lot of work: it is necessary to establish the alarm system to take inventory of the exhibits, consider hanging available in the funds works. And yet in Tarussky art gallery opened the annual exhibition "Moscow — Tarusa, one of the halls which is dedicated to painting and graphic Steinberg.

to Oversee the new branch office Olga Shishko — the head of the Department new media of the Pushkin Museum.

Eduard Steinberg (1937-2012) in the front artists of the postwar unofficial art, it is commonly attributed to the circle of "Sretensky Boulevard" (Kabakov, Bulatov, Pivovarov, Yankilevsky). Of painting he learned from his father, a graduate VKhUTEMAS Arkady Steinberg. Father Edward settled in Tarusa after returning from the camps ("enemy of the people"), and in 1950-е years Tarusa became the epicenter of creative dissent, which came to gain strength and work by artists and poets from Moscow.

Absolute auction record for the artist is $224 400 (set at Sotheby's in 2006). The greatest demand among buyers enjoy geometric abstraction artist. Large (meter and larger) canvases Steinberg in recent years at auction are sold in the price range $20 000-30 000.

by Maria Onuchina, AI

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Sources: vedomosti.ru, arts-museum.ru, artinvestment.ru