Exhibition dedicated to 150th anniversary of Nesterov, includes nearly two hundred paintings and drawings

State Russian Museum, April 5 - the beginning of August 2012
Benois Wing, St. Petersburg, nab Griboedov, 2

today in the Russian Museum opens an exhibition of Mikhail Vasilievich Nesterov (1862-1942). Artist's work related to religious and philosophical quests of the Silver Age of Russian culture, has opened a wonderful audience, poetic world of Orthodox monasteries and hermitages of Old Believers, the charm of nature in Central, soulful beauty of the national character. Images of famous contemporaries, created by the artist, embodied the best traits of a creative person and have become classics of the genre of portraiture in the national art.

Mikhail Nesterov Self. 1915 Oil on canvas. 94 x 110 Source: rusmuseum.ru

Mikhail Nesterov Portrait of Pavlov . 1930 Oil on canvas. 80 x 77 Source: rusmuseum.ru

exhibition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Nesterov, includes nearly two hundred paintings and drawings from the Russian Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Bashkir State Art Museum, the Astrakhan State Art Gallery, National Museum of the History of Religion, the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, the State Historical and artistic and literary museum "Abramtsevo", Tver Regional Picture Gallery, Church of the archaeological study of the Moscow Orthodox Theological Academy State Museum-Preserve "Pavlovsk" State Museum "Peterhof", as well as from private collections.

Source : rusmuseum.ru