The State Tretyakov Gallery presents a new acquisition - 25 previously unknown paintings Repin, and the restored picture of AD Litovchenko «Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and Nikon, Archbishop of Novgorod, the coffin Wonderworker Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow

Today, in the Tretyakov Gallery held a press showing of the drawings Ilya Repin , acquired the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, and also restored the painting AD Litovchenko «Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and Nikon, Archbishop of Novgorod, the coffin Wonderworker Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow» ( 1886).

25 drawings Repin - a new unique acquisition. For the first time in a long time collection of National Museum joins a set of drawings the artist of this magnitude.

Collection of previously unknown drawings Ефимовича Ilya Repin (1844-1930) comes from a family of craftsmen. The collection acquired in 2007 in Germany from the Countess Olga Lilienfeld-Toala, which his father passed the grandson of the artist Guy Repin. Previously, all sheets were Vera I. Repina (1872-1948).

"This collection covers all periods of the master and reflects all the styles in which he worked: there is a portrait and landscape sketches, illustrations and composite sketches. Previously unknown figures Repina diverse topics, technique and degree of completion. Each new sketch or outline, especially if it is associated with repinskoy painting, adds new details to understand the artist's ideas, allow for the slightest nuances in the process of their implementation.

The exhibition reveals the value of work, adding assembly GTG, in the general context of heritage Repina through the audience of his first independent steps in the Imperial Academy of Arts until the later years of life. Show organizers have made visible the parallels between painting and drawing master, giving «quotes» repinskih of canvases, and compared the newly received images with images from the collection of sheets of GTG. Thus, «Portrait of hetman PL Polubotko» is seen as a pencil tip time of the painting «Запорожцы write a letter to the Sultan of Turkey» (1880). A number of image model for the poet figure that IE Repin wrote at the request of IK Aivazovsky in his canvas «Farewell Alexander Pushkin to the Sea »(Russian Museum of AS Pushkin, St. Petersburg, 1887), available stored in GTG pencil sketch. Neighborhood similar to the composition of figures underlined the importance of a new acquisition for comprehension of the work of the artist's way of Pushkin.

documented and entirely concrete motive distinguish visual landscapes Repina. Over the years, they changed style pencil drawings, but remained unchanged in the selection of a nature observation, and accurate method of fixation. Although the number of landscapes in the collection is small, they greatly expand the understanding of the Repin Landscape and provide additional facts in his creative biography.

The most remarkable part of the collection - a portrait of the sheets, among which stands out first outline shapes AM Gorky on one sheet with sketches song «Among the waves». It is assumed that he was executed in Penates in 1904, while reading the poem in prose Gorky «Man». Skoropisyu drawing-transcripts Repin recorded on paper their thoughts, reflecting the spiritual life of Russian intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Ends with a display of works of the late period, associated with the work on the painting «Finnish celebrities» - group portrait that captures gala dinner in Helsinki on the occasion of taking his Repin paintings and paintings of Russian artists in the gift of Finland artistic societies in 1920.

received by the State Tretyakov Gallery, part of the heritage Repina still needed in the study: refinement requires authorship sheet «In Naples», is not solved until the end of some other figures, such as «soldiers», currently located at exhibition «the pen Maestro» .

Also for the first time since the restoration of the picture shows AD Litovchenko «Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and Nikon, Archbishop of Novgorod, the coffin Wonderworker Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow». Many decades of a large canvas (225 x 183.8) did not abandon storage Tretyakov Gallery, so it is unfamiliar as a wide audience, and most professionals.

In a plot pictures «Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich and Nikon ...» - an episode from the history of the Metropolitan of Novgorod intronizatsii Nikon (1605-1681) on the patriarchal throne in 1652. Before the viewer is presented a grand scene in the Assumption Cathedral. The young king of Alexei Mikhailovich in festive attire and hats Monomakh is kneeling before the shrine with the relics of Metropolitan Philip, and next to it - vested in the patriarchal mantle Nikon. Depicted and other members of ceremony: the clergy, boyars, foreign ambassadors and representatives of the people. While working on the painting, AD Litovchenko specially studied architecture and painting of the Assumption Cathedral of Moscow Kremlin, a collection of the Armory Chamber. At the same time, he knowingly allowed «accuracy», wrote the interior of a cathedral and the silver shrine of St. Philip's in the form as they were after the restoration of the nineteenth century. To create an image of Nikon posed a well-known critic VV Stasov. The painting was purchased in 1886, P. Tretiakov.

From the picture - Alexander Litovchenko (1835-1890) - a historical and religious painter, member of «14 riot-ty» in the Imperial Academy of Arts. Member of the Association of traveling art exhibitions, in 1868 awarded the title of academician.

team of restorers Tretyakov Gallery, under the leadership of AI Golubeyko enhanced paint layer picture, the edge of a breakthrough are joined at the top right of, and the author restored art frame.

The exhibition will remain open until the end of March, Lavrushinsky Lane, 10 (hall № 46-48).

Source: mkrf.ru