«Golden fleece» in the Tretyakov Gallery
ARTinvestment.RU   02 марта 2008

March 12, in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, 10, opens exhibition project «" Golden Runo. " 1906-1909. At the root of the avant-garde ».

March 12, in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, 10, opens exhibition project «" Golden Runo. " 1906-1909. At the root of the avant-garde ». The project is devoted to the arts magazine «Golden Runo» and dedicated to the centennial of the grandiose exhibition «Salon Golden Fleece», held in April 1908 in Moscow, which were made jointly by Russian artists and the French master of new and emerging artistic trends - P. Kouznetsov, M. Sarian, P. Utkin, AN Ulyanov, M. Larionov, V. Van Gogh, Gauguin P., P. Cezanne, Matisse, etc. A. The exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery reflects the diverse activities of «Golden Fleece» as the ideological center of Russian Symbolism in terms of the new aesthetic ideal of the era. It will display works by M. Vrubel, V. Borisov-Musatov, K. Somov, A. Benoit, L. Bakst and artists «Blue Roses». Interest «Golden Fleece» National Heritage to demonstrate icons, A. Ivanov, A. Venetsianov and his school, N. Gay. In total the exhibition will be presented over 200 works from the collections of paintings, graphics, sculptures from the collections of The State Tretyakov Gallery, Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin and private collections.

A special section will focus on the person of Nicholas Ryabushinskogo - editor-publisher of the magazine «The Golden Runo». It will be exhibited materials archive «Russian abroad», as well as unique specimens of Russian editions of the early XX century. The exhibition will be open until May 11.