Galeev Gallery, December 2011 - February 2012
Moscow, B. Kozikhinskiy lane, 19 /6, 1

has become a tradition to hold the year-end exhibition from the collections of members of the Club of collectors of fine art in Moscow. This year, participating in it and the work of those collectors who are not formally take place in club, are its permanent members. Drawings and paintings by additions to the collection of end-2011, demonstrated publicly for the first time. They are intended to illustrate the success the collecting activity. And the public has an opportunity to wonder and new discoveries to enjoy meeting with the objects of exceptional artistic merit.

DANIEL HOPFER Portrait of Girolamo da Siena. About 1516. Etching Source: Press Release Galeev galleries

Among the rarities you can highlight the most interesting.

picture B. Kustodiev « Carousel Kineshma "1917 is well known to those skilled in the numerous references in the sources. However, the" live "this canvas never exhibited. extant written evidence of the artist's son, Kirill Borisovich, with memories of how Boris wrote this picture. Until 1956, the picture in the collection of famous entertainers - VY Henkin (1883-1953). After his death admitted to the Moscow meeting, which houses the present day. Painting is one of the best examples of the genre of the master end of the 1910s: its ceremonial system and coloristic richness and its wonderful atmosphere, full of festive mystery of Russian provincial life, creating a rare beauty of polyphony sound.

Kustodiev Carousel Kineshma. 1917. Oil on canvas Source: Press Release Galeev galleries

Three early distemper < a title = "Grigoryev, Boris Dmitrievich (1886-1939)" href = "/auctions/852"> Boris Grigoriev come from the collection of Kiev IY Angenitskogo, known in the art since the 1940s. This collection was famous for just his "Grigor'ev" content: many of her works went to the museum collections of the country - Pskov, Kherson. Preserved in this collection of Grigoriev exhibited for the first time since 1958, when they participated in the exhibition of Russian art from private collections, held in Kiev Museum of Russian Art. Among the works presented is unique in the picture "Skiing in Finland", belonging to the revolution, AE Burtsev, the first Russian collector of works by BA Grigor'ev, and published in his edition of "My journal for the few," which came out in 1913 with a limited edition for lovers and collectors of Russian antiquities.

Boris Grigoriev Promenade. 1916. Tempera on cardboard Source: Press Release Galeev galleries

unique and graphic sheet by Henri Matisse. It is located in the Moscow collection for quite some time and is a sketch dekupazhnogo poster, which he created in connection with the exhibition his work in the Tate Gallery in London in 1953. Works of this level in the private collections of the country are extremely rare.

Figure graphite VA Tabor - «Portrait of MV Yudina" (1949), except for art, has considerable historical significance. The personality of the artist model is of interest to all who are familiar with the country's musical culture of the twentieth century. A brilliant pianist, MV Yudina was more than just a performer of classical works by composers. For a long time it was synonymous with resistance and struggle with the world of conservatism, a symbol of dissent. Portrait participated in exhibitions of the early 1950's, but then disappeared from the view of experts in more than half a century.

Among the striking successes of our show - a demonstration of the legendary Jacques engraving been severed from Callot - "The siege of the citadel of St. Martin in Ile de Re "in 1631. Composition is made up of six parts - the sheets of etchings - the total size of more than five feet in length. These reprints of this engraving in the collection - real rarities. We are especially pleased to indicate its origin - a collection of prints and drawings Yuri Petrovich Velikanova (1904-1934, Leningrad). , belonged to his collecting seriously. The exhibition and other works from his collection - Zorn etching A., aquatint E. Kruglikova , lists D.-B. Piranesi, monotypes K. .

Anders Zorn Self-portrait. 1899. Etching Source: Press Release Galeev galleries

Show "Premiere Collection 2011" has its distinctive features from the previous ones: an extension of the usual framework of collecting. Among the items on display and you can see some samples of art Russian miniatures (K. Gampeln, , M. Gebhard, etc.) is amazing and also a selection of Russian and foreign daguerreotype. Not to mention the collection of Russian portrait photographs of the first third of the twentieth century. Among the models - the well-known writers and artists, there is a group portrait of the poet-futurist, established in the heyday of the avant-garde movement (1913-1924).

< div class = "imgcenter"> CARL GAMPELN Portrait of an Unknown Woman in a white dress. The first third of the XIX century. Miniature. Bones, watercolor, gouache Source: Press release Galeev galleries

Unknown photographer (USA). Portrait of girls middle of the XIX century. Daguerreotype Source: Press Release Galeev galleries

exhibition premiere collection of treasures is a panorama gatherer preferences, prevailing today, demonstrates the level of preparedness and professionalism of the people who were searching artistic values, inspired by research and development path publikatorsky artistic heritage of the past.

Source : Press Release Galeev gallery