THG, April 22 - July 31, 2011

Today, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Corps of Engineers , 2 nd Floor, Lavroushinsky per., 12) for the visitors opened the exhibition "West European and Russian painting of XVI - XX centuries from the collection of the Kursk State Picture Gallery of AA Deineki. This is the 35-th exhibition within the "Golden Map of Russia, the capital acquainting the public with the best museum collections of the Russian regions.

• BASIL TROPININ
  Girl Podolia. Until 1821
  Oil on canvas. 49.2 x 36,5
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• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  old head on canvas. 61.2 x 49,2
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Viewers will see some 60 works, including paintings by Russian masters XVIII - XX centuries and works XVI - XIX centuries, Italian, Dutch, French and Swiss art schools of bright and varied collection of Kursk State Picture Gallery of. AA Deineki.

History Gallery is traditional for the Russian countryside: collection is older than the museum itself. Start building the meeting relates to the period of a Provincial Historical and Archaeological Museum and Handicraft (1903-1905). The first works in the collection came as donations from individuals. The basis of meeting the future gallery there was a post-revolutionary years for the most of the paintings, confiscated from the nationalized Kursk Estates Baryatinsky, Schwarz, Nelidova and Rehbinder. However, the idea of ​​opening a museum of art has been carried out only in 1935 when it contributed to nearly 200 works from the art department of the museum. In the same year, joins the meeting for his work famous native of Kursk AA Deineka , whose name was given to the gallery's 1969. In what the museum grew from a variety of state institutions, including income from regional and national museums, among which was the State Tretyakov Gallery. Currently, the museum's collection more than 8,000 exhibits - paintings, sculptures, drawings, works of folk and decorative arts of domestic and Western European masters.

• EFIM Cheptsov Italian motif. 1913
  Oil on canvas. 80.1 x 89,3
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• Igor Grabar Flora . 1934
  Oil on canvas. 82.5 x 82,5
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Exhibition introduces the most interesting works of Kursk picture gallery. In the Western art (his collection in the Gallery was formed mainly from the papers received from the two manors - Baryatinsky and Schwartz) are 13 paintings - the pearl of the meeting. "Still life with a self-portrait of the Italian masters of the second half of XVII century by Francesco Maltese comes from the estate collection Baryatinsky. Several generations of the prince's family bought works of art in Italy. These collections include canvas and St. Catherine of Alexandria "(unknown artist of the XVII century), whose style is close followers of Caravaggio, and the painting" Head of an old man "by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), also known by a lot of repetition (one of them and is in the same town)," Portrait of Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexeyevna "(1797) brushes E. Vigee-Lebrun.

Federigo Barocci Portrait of a Girl Facilities Oil on canvas. 39.6 x 30,5 Source: Press Release THG

Original masterpiece collection - "Portrait of a Girl" Federigo Barocci (1535-1612), representative of late Mannerism, a court painter of the Dukes of della Rovere (Urbino). Portrait is from the collection of the heirs of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, vice president of the Academy of Fine Arts, personally acquiring paintings in Florence. The collection of picture galleries came from the Pushkin Museum in 1939.

special place in the exhibition is "Portrait of Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King George III» Brushes English artist Alan Ramsey (1713 - 1784). This painting, owned Rila local lore museum (Kursk region), officers recovered a restoration of the gallery, and illustrates their high professionalism. Complicated process of restoration of paintings captures a film showing on the plasma screen, as well as on special media panel.

Section of Russian Art includes more than 40 exhibits of XVIII - XX centuries. Among the works of the XVIII century - "Portrait of Peter II» (type Lyuddena, unknown artist, the first third of XVIII century) and "Portrait of Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna (1798), made VL Borovikovsky on her upcoming marriage. One of the most memorable paintings in the exhibition - "Girl from Podolia (until 1821) the brush VATropinin , prior to the Kursk art gallery owned by the Tretyakov Gallery.

CONSTANTINE Trutovsky In the flood Oil on canvas. 49 x 65,5 Source: Press Release THG

Robert Falk lady in a yellow blouse (AK Bobrovskaya). 1910 Oil on canvas. 81 x 64 Source: Press Release THG

The most significant part of the collection galleries are the works of Russian painting of the second half of the XIX century. The exhibition includes paintings INKramskoy , Vladimir Makovsky , KV Lemokh , landscapes AIKuindzhi , I. Levitan , A . Schilder H. . Demonstrates the "Portrait of Alyosha Repin (Age of Pushkin)" (1916) Brush Repin and its same Etude "hat man" (1875), referring to the time of the painting "Parisian cafe».

Gallery owns a valuable collection of paintings beginning of the twentieth century. Terms of Moscow Artists - Exhibitors' Jack of Diamonds "," Donkey's Tail "and" target "before" Still Life with reeds » AND . Mashkov , «Still Life with Red tray» Pyotr Konchalovsky (both - 1910). It is interesting comparison of the two exceptional artistic quality portraits R. Falk «Lady in a yellow blouse (AK . Bobrovskaya) "1910 and" Woman of Paris (Ellian Tayar) "1936, demonstrates the evolution of the plastic language of the wizard. Exhibited little familiar to the Moscow public examples of the work B. Kustodiev («Girl with Flowers", 1917); VE Borisov-Musatov («At the River," Etude, 1894), AA Osmerkin («A woman takes off her gloves. VI Morozov, 1924).

The exhibition is an illustrated edition.

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