This evening at «Mamontovs Gallery» Exhibition «Silver Age: the unity of diversity. Russian Paintings and Graphics 1900-1920's ». It will be presented to the work of the greatest masters of the early twentieth century from the collection of Valery and Marina Mamontovs. Many of them were first shown publicly.

Collection evolved gradually, her owners were guided exclusively own aesthetic taste and intuition «connoisseurs of beauty», preferring first and foremost the art of the first half of the twentieth century, most of the Silver Age. Noble desire to show his collection of viewers prompted collectors to the gallery and an active exhibition activities and published directories.

The current exhibition is part of a series already held in Vienna, Moscow Tsaritsyno, in the gallery and at the same time opens a series of exhibitions of art of the first half of the twentieth century. The chronological framework of the exhibition covers the period from 1900's to 1920, including only the material that corresponds to the characteristic features of the world and the common language of poetic era Silver Age, the era, which is known to be marked by an abundance of artistic trends and tendencies, with the incredible pace successive one another. This overall situation in the artistic life of Russia in the first decades of the century, the exhibition organizers sought to reflect in the exposition of the main range of artistic trends of the era.

The exhibition is a private collection chamber and is not so much on the mass audience, but at the connoisseur, supporters, «soperezhivatelya» and «somyslitelya». In addition to paintings of the greatest masters of the twentieth century, such as K. Korovin , P. Utkin , Krymov , R. Falk , P. Konchalovsky , A. Bogomazov , V. Denisov , N. Goncharov , Vladimir V. Baranov, Rossini , most of them are things here - the schedule . This intimate sketches M. Vrubel , pencil sketches K. Korovin, drama sketches L. Bakst , Alexander A. Golovin , A. Lentulov , sketch Z. Serebryakova for the painting «Bath» (1913), Industrial scheduling title="Vasnetsov, V. Vasnetsov , study nudity P. Konchalovsky, drawings Valentin Serov , E. Lanceray , S. Sudeikin , F. Malyavina , A. Kuprin , , Chernyshova , etc.

dominant genre and theme of a landscape. Several canvases and supplementing them graphic sketches allow in general terms to provide the main trends of Russian landscape painting 1900's until the early 1920's. The display was a small work M. Leblanc «House of the River» (1910) and landscape Kuvshinnikovoy S. (1890), go back to the traditions of Russian realistic landscape 1890-1900-ies, as always, magnificent paintings and pencil drawings Studios pioneer Russian Impressionism K. Korovin ( «Evening in Okhotin», 2 nd half of 1910-x; « Early Spring », 1920;« afterglow. Paris », 1920 e); early paintings by Robert Falk« Blue birch trees in winter »(1906-1907), combining the traditions of Russian realistic landscape painting and Impressionism; simvolistskie landscapes goluborozovtsa P. Utkina ( «Landscape with Lake», 1907) and Vladimir Denisov ( «Landscape with a white sheep», 1900, 1910; «Trees», 1916); «Landscape with palm trees and blooming flowerbed» (1906) A. Bogomazova, «Evening» (mid 1910-s) N. Krymov, «bush» P. Konchalovsky (early 1920's), always charming watercolor Cimmerian K. Bogaevskogo and M. Voloshin.

Of course, the private collection can not claim complete coverage of all the artistic trends of the rich and controversial time, what was the twentieth century, even if only his first quarter. However, the formation of the collection is ongoing, which means that the viewer is waiting for more than an interesting meeting with the art, and possibly the discovery of new works by famous artists, are still inaccessible audience.

The exhibition is accompanied by a complete catalog, in the introductory section which contains a description and analysis of exposure.

exhibition in «Gallery Mamontovs» (Lavrushinsky trans., 11, bld. 1) is open to the public from 21 May to 15 June.

Source: press release «Mamontovs Galleries»