The House-Museum FIShalyapin an exhibition of a portrait, on which a portrait of FIShalyapin brush Boris Grigoriev, painter, graphic arts, portrait painter who worked in the scenery and the monumental painting

House and Museum FIShalyapin (branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music; St. Petersburg, Graftio 2b) An exhibition of a portrait, on which a portrait of FIShalyapin brush Boris Grigoriev , painter, graphic, portrait painter who worked in the field of scenery and monumental painting.

Portrait FIShalyapin occupies a special place in the work of BD Grigoriev. Relation to Chaliapin artist expressed in his letter to him: "I will never forget those days that you have sacrificed for me, for your portrait. During our joint work on the portrait, I too was fascinated by the work itself and had not in any way express my passion for you, my knowledge of you and my interest to you ».

Grigoriev has created an image ambiguous, strange, gravitates towards the monumental and destroys it. Later he turned to the image of the singer in his cycle of paintings "Faces of Russia", considering Chaliapin one of the bright "faces" of Russia. Interestingly, contemporaries noted a surprising similarity between the artist and singer, Sergei Radlov wrote: "... they - the embodiment of Russian talent, both of enormous growth, the white pure Russian faces, there are undoubted similarities in the nature of the success of each. It's natural talents ».

portrait was exhibited once in 1919 in Petrograd on the 1 st State Free Exhibition of works of art. Later the painting was purchased by Brodsky .

The exhibition runs until August 10, 2010.

material prepared Ekaterina Guseva, AI

Sources: theatremuseum.ru , museum.ru , artinvestment.ru