Ivan Pokhitonov: "Wizard-artist"
ARTinvestment.RU   02 марта 2010

Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery presents "Wizard-artist, dedicated to the 160-th anniversary IP Pohitonova

Today, March 2, the State Tretyakov Gallery will be opening an exhibition "Wizard-artist", marking the 160 anniversary of the birth IP Pohitonova.

Creative Pohitonova (1850-1923) over the years has become increasingly important for Russian art and Russian culture. "This is a magician-artist, so masterful, masterfully done, as he wrote - does not understand ... Wizard!" - Talking about it Ilya Repin . "Most French among Russian landscape," as his contemporaries called, IP Pokhitonov many years he studied and worked in France and Belgium, and bolsháya part of his legacy remained outside Russia. This exhibition for the first time such a broad shown artist's work professionals and the general public.

opening of the art IP Pohitonova contributed solo exhibition, held at the Tretyakov Gallery in 1963, after which began a systematic study of heritage wizard. As an artist long lived abroad and worked in the technique of miniature painting, popular in Europe during the second half of the XIX century, but received no distribution in Russia, his work was not widely known at home.

• IVAN Pokhitonov in winter. 1900-e
  Oil on wood. 17,5 x 26,8
• IVAN Pokhitonov Biarritz. Before the storm
  Lake in Landa and burnt pine forest.
  1891 Oil on wood. 16,4 x 26,5

Nevertheless IP Pokhitonov always tried to maintain contact with Russia, with Russian artistic life . He wanted as much of his work was represented in the collection of Pavel Tretyakov, who got in his collection of twenty-three of the masters, and participated in exhibitions of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibition, Moscow Society of Art Lovers, represented by their works of Russian art for abroad. In early 1900 he was awarded a full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts and became a member of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions.

since childhood IP Pokhitonov fond of drawing, writing and watercolor Ukrainian oil cottages, Kherson steppes, their relatives and friends. Later, peered at the painting the Wanderers and the French "barbizontsev. For Excellence at the end of 1876 the artist traveled to Italy, and in 1877 settled in Paris. The following year, his landscapes were taken at the Salon des Champs Elysees, which shall be evidence of international recognition of the artist.

In Paris IP Pokhitonov the advice of the famous Russian landscape painter AP Bogolyubov , who lived at that time in France, the Barbizon and promote the Russian artists, and constantly writing on location in the south of France, in Biarritz , Bayonne, Mentone, Po, near Paris, in Meudon.

• IVAN Pokhitonov La Pann. Beach.
  1895 Oil on wood. 14,3 х25, 1
• IVAN Pokhitonov Vesuvius.
  1891 Oil on wood. 11,8 x28, 8

In the work of masters of organic combination of penetrating and poetic look at the world, characteristic of Russian landscape mood, with true French refinement painting.

artist painted his paintings on small plates of lemon or a different species of mahogany with a fine brush, sometimes microscopic dimensions, using a palette knife, fish bones and scalpels, used during the magnifiers and special double points. These funds, he sought to complete a complete picture, while maintaining the freshness of the direct perception of nature, "the freshness of first impressions».

display shows all the periods of creativity IP Pohitonova in the genres of landscape, still life, portrait, landscape, genre painting. The works are grouped by country and areas in which he worked as an artist - France, Italy, Belgium, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Separately presented one of the favorite motifs of the artist - hunting scenes from different periods of creativity. Viewers will be able to get acquainted with the legacy of the wizard with a magnifying glass and enlargements. An interesting addition to the exhibition will be ceramic plates with pictures and autographs of the artist created in the Paris studio of ceramic artists of Russian Alexei Bogolyubov (late 1870 - early 1880). The exhibition includes 80 works from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery and the collections of O. L . Margania.

exhibition is open to public from March 3 to 23 May, at: Lavroushinsky Lane, 10, Halls 46-48.

Source: press release of the State Tretyakov Gallery