Russian Museum has never bestow as many masterpieces of the capital at a time - almost five superlative works. Over the border, he has been generously exported its treasures, especially the avant-garde, but in Moscow - no. Brought the work can be seen in two exhibitions in Tsaritsyno - «twentieth century in the Russian Museum» and «Time to collect» .

Exhibition «The twentieth century in the Russian Museum» - is selected digest main exhibition for the period stated in the title and part of the collection of Peter Ludwig, once the museum donation.

judge this exhibition is not possible, because, under whatever name and under whatever about either show pictures Serov, Petrov-Vodkin, Malevich, Kandinsky, Goncharova, Larionov, Chagall, Picasso, Warhol - all of happiness and interest. Let the majority of works of a textbook, though among them is ugly Soviet official (from the native history of art Gerasimova not vykinesh), but leave the exhibition without such experience can only be a spectator hopelessly indifferent to art, but this generally no need to go to museums.

Exhibition «Time to collect», open to the public June 11, presents works of Russian painting and decorative art from foreign collections and is the culmination of seven years exploring the museum staff of private collections of Russian art. On the labor work demonstrates the creation of works: exhibition begins with paintings by Vladimir Borovikovsky and Carl Brullov, and ends with photographs of Alexander Rodchenko.

«Everything that we show at the exhibition earlier in Russia were not known. This applies both to individual products or entire periods of creativity of some artists », - said the deputy director of the Museum of Yevgeny Petrov.

The first case illustrates a picture of Ilya Repin «Black Wolnica», found in a Finnish assembly. This picture shows life запорожцев in dramatic fashion, in contrast to the optimistic and well-known canvases «Zaporizhzhya Cossacks writing a letter to the Sultan of Turkey». Already aware of the existence of «Black Wolnica», in various museum collections, two studies have found it. In doing so, the owners themselves did not suspect that owned part of the 20-year work Repina above picture. «This is a great success - show together sketches of the different collections. It does not matter is the Black Sea Wolnica "crown of creation Repina or, more importantly, that this exhibition we can see the process of searching a large painter», - said E. Petrova

As for the unknown period of creativity of famous Russian painters, the latter are those works that were created in exile, settled abroad and has so far remained outside the purview of specialists. To understand better the organizers of the exhibition placed in one of the halls of the palace Tsaritsino Greater unusual for Philip Malyavina, famous for its babami in tsvetastyh robes, allegorical canvas «The Princess and Omar». According to Petrova, E., «the picture most clearly shows that after the revolution, many artists who have left Russia, changed the manner of writing, the theme works. At this exhibition, we complement and partly replace the established view of the famous painters ».

In the meantime, like exhibition can not only experts and connoisseurs of Russian art: its creators have integrated a wide variety of tastes of visitors. While some appreciate the same color but different style of work by Natalia Goncharova, whose works are consistently the top lots at Christie's auctions, and Sotheby's, someone else will is interesting to look at the samovar of Emperor Alexander III and precious snuff boxes.

Exposition «Time to collect» is made up of 134 paintings and 48 drawings and six sculptures and 50 photographs, and objects of decorative art collections of the 15 United States and Europe.

Petrov believes that the role of past and contemporary art collectors in the preservation of national art has so far underestimated: «Let us not forget that each museum began with someone's private collection, and would do well in the Russian Museum revamp labels for paintings by adding information from a collection occurs, each of them ».

Exhibition «Time to collect» will work until July 10.

Exhibition «The twentieth century in the Russian Museum» will operate until September 9.

Yegor Molchanov

Source: www.rian.ru , www.vedomosti.ru , artinvestment.ru