In Lipetsk Gallery project «Graphic seasons» an exhibition of works of famous watercolourist Arthur Fonvizina

In Lipetsk Gallery project «Graphic seasons» an exhibition of works of famous watercolourist Arthur Fonvizina. Total brought 62 paintings, 9 of them are in the fund the State Tretyakov Gallery, 17 - the Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin, a large part - 36 exhibited works - from the private collections of Moscow Sergey Alexandrov.

The exhibition includes a watercolor of Arthur Fonvizina 1930-1970's: urban, romantic landscapes, portraits, still lifes with flowers, as well as work with theater and circus motifs, through which the artist received global acclaim. Exposition in Lipetsk offers a unique opportunity to see many landmark pictures Fonvizina, which are kept in museum storerooms, and are not included in the main exhibition. In particular, represented one of the early works 1920's - a portrait of Galina Vishnevskaya Collection of the Pushkin Museum to them. Alexander Pushkin, and several well-known portraits of the Tretyakov Gallery, has published directories for art, but rarely available to the public. The point is that the water - it is a fragile technique, which has a tendency to burn. Because of this watercolor works are on display only periodically, for a short time.

Now for the unusual air, full of color shades finest watercolors Fonvizina hunt collectors around the world. Meanwhile, work in this technique the artist has begun only in the fifth decade - in the late 1920's.

Fate Fonvizina quite easy. After the first personal exhibition in 1936, the artist was accused of formalism, and he lost his orders from publishers, which has long worked as a book illustrator. Art style master characterize free, vibrating strokes, attenuate, «fluid» ink and white background clearances.

A special place in the works Fonvizina took a circus. Acrobats, clowns, horsewoman - he wrote hundreds of them. For the first time an artist has got to circus show of five boys, and this impression remained with him for life. It then said critics Fonvizin was «the eternal child in art».

Restorer State Tretyakov Gallery, dealing, moreover, examination of Arthur Fonvizina, Valery Silaev at the opening ceremony stressed that the authenticity of the data items from the experts is clear: the majority of the paintings in Lipetsk - this reference work from which need to start by studying this author. These watercolors have been in the private and public funds directly from the family Fonvizina or one of his favorite girls, Anna Belyakova.

To protect the collections taken unprecedented measures, and the insured value of the masterpieces of about two million dollars.

The exhibition will run until June 24.

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