Today, August 18, the Division of the Pushkin Museum of Private Collections them. Alexander Pushkin exhibition opens monuments Russian theater the second half of XIX - XX centuries, the first half from a private collection of V. Solyanikova «The Artist in the mirror stage». It includes more than 100 works, including sketches of the scenery and costumes, and also costumes, posters, programs, posters, photographs, books. The core of the exhibition will become a collection of theatrical sketches of Russian and Soviet artists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Of the masters - the older generation of decorators who worked with Diaghilev SP: A. Benoit , A. , M. Dobuzhinsky , K. Korovin , H. Sapunov and S. Sudeikin . Decoration of the exhibition are the original costumes, based on sketches by L. Bakst for the Russians seasons Sergei Diaghilev .

Beautiful designs theatrical avant-garde 1910-20's are represented in the sketches A . Ekster , N. Udaltsova , N. Erdman, and other famous artists . The movement of Cubism and Constructivism to the heroic monumentality show sketches B. Khodasevich and V. Tatlin , a time of war is represented by such names as A. Tyshler , P. Williams and A. Ladur .

In a small gallery of portraits - a graphic portrait of KS Stanislavsky's work Dobuzhinsky M. and T. Karsavina picturesque portrait of the A. Eberlinga , a documentary section of the exhibition - poster premiere performances of 1928 «Woe mind» at the State Theater. Meyerhold, a photo of Maria Kalas during her visit to the USSR in 1970, and other monuments of the past era.

Many exhibits will show the audience the first time.

Source: museum.ru/gmii