Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, April 18 - August 28, 2012
Department of Private Collections, Moscow, Volkhonka 10

Today in the Department of Private Collections Pushkin Museum. Pushkin will host the opening exhibition of Western European and Russian art from private collections in Moscow, "Portraits of collectors».

Swabian artist. St. George refused to worship the pagan idol Source: arts-museum.ru

Aleida VOLFSEN Portrait of a boy with a dog Source: arts-museum.ru

The exhibition is timed to the 100th anniversary of Pushkin Museum. Pushkin and the Museum is a unique greeting collectors. The exhibition presents approximately 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures of the largest collections of Moscow.

exhibition will introduce audiences to the peculiarities of each meeting and the major eras of art history, starting from the XVI century to the first half of the XX century. This ancient Russian icons, paintings and drawings by old masters XVI - XVIII centuries in Germany, Holland, Flanders, France and Italy, the works of the masters of Germany and France, foreign XIX - XX centuries and the first third of XX century, as well as Russia XVIII - first half of XX century.

Among the works that will be presented at the exhibition - "Suprematism. Rectangle and Circle "(1915) ,« Ball "(1910) Nicholas Sapunova ,« Ayu-Dag. Gurzuf "(1853) ,« Victorious Battle "(1914) Aristarchus Lentulov ,« Girl and the goose with goslings "(1913) Niko Pirosmani , «The peasants, gathering brushwood" by Pieter Brueghel the Younger's "Allegory of Summer" Adrian Van Stalbemta, "Monkeys in the pub," David Teniers the Younger, "Portrait of a boy with a dog," Aleida Volfsena, "Forest Landscape" Gillis van Koninkslo and others.

Gillis van KONINKSLO Woodland Source: arts-museum. ru

ABRAHAM BERSTRATEN canal near Amsterdam in the winter Heyligevegsport Source: arts-museum.ru

demonstration of each collection will be accompanied by brief texts about collectors and their collections. Such an approach would be seen through the prism of each private meeting of the identity of the collector, to disclose his interests, aesthetic taste, design features of each of the collections.

Aristarkh Lentulov winning the battle Source: arts-museum.ru

By the opening of the exhibition catalog was published, consisting of two sections: "Western European art," and "Russian art." As part of the landscape include information about collectors and their collections of works composed by leading scientists of the Pushkin Museum.

Source : Press Release Pushkin Museum. Pushkin