In the building on Krymsky Val hosted a handover ceremony to the Museum two works of the astronaut who was the first ever spacewalk

the Event was held April 6 in the exhibition "the Thaw", and was timed to the release of the movie "first Time", dedicated to the legendary flight of the "Voskhod-2" with crew: Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov.

In the collection of the New Tretyakov gallery there were two works Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov — "spacewalk. 25.03.1965" (2006) and the cosmic landscape (2011). Leonov — pioneer space graphics and painting. He was able to carry on Board the ship the pencils and paper and doing sketches. The picture of Leonov in 1970-х was very famous in Soviet Union. And after that, in 1977 he published the book "solar wind", they've got almost all Soviet schoolchildren. The works of Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov is regularly exhibited at exhibitions, they are in several regional museums, was sold several times in Russian and international auctions. Price record belongs to the pattern with the start of the "Union-19", which in 1996 was sold at Sotheby's for $9 200 (including Commission). TASS writes that in recent years Aleksey Leonov moved away from the space theme in the works. He continues to draw and paint, but most of the landscape. Soon, on may 30, Leonov will be 83 years old.

Source: facebook.com/tretyakovgallery, mkrf.ru, tass.ru

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