"Marc Chagall. The origins of the creative artist's language. The 125th anniversary of his birth "
ARTinvestment.RU   14 июня 2012

The Tretyakov Gallery is one of the most anticipated projects of the year - an exhibition of little-known graphic legacy of Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

TG, June 15 - September 30, 2012
Moscow, Lavrushinsky, 12 , Corps of Engineers, 2nd Floor

Tretyakov Gallery is one of the most anticipated projects of the year - an exhibition of little-known legacy Graphic Marc Chagall (1887-1985). The exhibition is held within the framework of Year of the French language and literature in Russia, and it once again highlights one of the main features of the art of Marc Chagall - its internationality.

phenomenon works by Marc Chagall always cause great interest both abroad and in Russia. The Tretyakov Gallery regularly provides the artist from his congregation to participate in the best museum projects in Europe, America and Asia. In the halls of the Gallery's own exhibition of Chagall held a major in 1973, 1992, 2005, the last of them, "Hello, Motherland!" Showed the artist's iconic paintings, and was warmly received by the audience: for the three months it was visited by about 128,000 people.

At this time, the organizers and curators have decided to show the little-known in our drawings, watercolors and gouaches - from the earliest sketches of Vitebsk to Paris later collages and prints by Chagall - made famous in the art of etching illustrations of the Bible (1931-1956) and "Fable," La Fontaine (1950-1952). The exhibition features more than 150 graphic works and paintings by the artist sculpture, works of applied art from the collections of foreign and Russian museums and private collections.

first time in domestic work of Chagall museum practice presented in the context search for the origins of his art. Chagall belonged to a generation of artists who in the early twentieth century in an attempt to finding yourself, your own system and shaped plastic tongue turned to folk art. Chagall has not received consistent professional training, his first and most important teacher was the natural environment - the Jewish, Russian, Belarusian, Lithuanian, French environment, "that living water" that has "galvanized" and inspired by the masters throughout life.

real and unreal events, captured by the artist, is firmly connected to the earth's environment key to his household items, take place, which became characteristic of Chagall, "password" from the naive sign in Vitebsk barber or milkman in Paris before the cross of the Orthodox Cathedral or chimeras of Notre-Dame of Paris, from the simple little embroidery to the menorah and Torah, leaning on a peasant's hut to the gate of the Vilnius synagogue and Jewish cemetery on the popular prints and illustrations of popular publications, traveling musicians before the banners of the revolution. The artist stated: "It is not true that my art is fantastic! I am a realist, I love the earth! »

The exposition at the Tretyakov Gallery includes works from the collections of the artist's family: a unique, never been exhibited in Russia works" family circle "- self-portraits, portraits of his mother, grandmothers, cousins, sisters, wives and daughters Ida Bella, performed in the late 1900s - 1910s. In these works the viewer is presented a kind of autobiography of the artist, the chronicle of his family ("the window. Mother and daughter." 1908 "Ring." 1908-1909, "Model. Sister of the artist." 1910, "Birth." In 1911 and others) . Engraved life story of Chagall captured in a series of sheets of "My Life" (1922). A kind of leitmotif of the exhibition presents the image of his beloved Vitebsk, present in one form or another in all the pictures of the master.

from the French entered the meeting and the group works 1960-70's in a rare technique of collage ("The Triumph of Music. Design panels for the Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Art Center." 1966; "Clown and his shadow (Blue Violinist)." 1964 "Lilac nude." 1967 "Hymn of the embankment hours." 1968).

Marc Chagall Purple naked. 1967 paper collage of fabric and paper, gouache and ink. 24,3 x 20,6 Private collection, Switzerland © ADAGP Paris 2012 Trademark - Chagall ®

Marc Chagall Anthem Quay hours. 1968 paper, collage, mixed media. 36,5 x 25,1 Private collection, Paris © ADAGP Paris 2012 Trademark - Chagall ®

Pushkin Museum. Pushkin gave to the exhibition started in Russia, "Landscape with a goat (Liozno)" (1910), "In the Hall of Thea" (1910), "A Room at Gorokhovaya" (1910), donated to the museum by Ida Chagall. Works first time in Paris, Chagall interpretation examples of modern French art - "Nude with Flowers", "Reclining Nude" (both - 1911) - provided the fund Sepherot Foundation (Liechtenstein).

Vpervyemoskovskomu viewer will be displayed in the newly acquired French Youth albums Chagall derived from the archives of Blaise Cendrars, writer and poet, translator, and other masters, who introduced the young artist in the circle of the Parisian avant-garde (a collection of T. and J. Manasherov, Moscow).

In addition to the original drawings in the exhibition included illustrations of the "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol (1923-1925), executed on the initiative of the Parisian gallery owner and publisher of the series "Artist's Book" Ambroise Vollard and presented to the author of the Tretyakov Gallery in 1927.

discoveries for the domestic audience, and become famous "wedding service" (1951-1952. Pottery, white enamel, painting), created by Chagall in honor of the wedding, the daughter of Ida (private collection, Paris), and two marble sculpture for the fountain - "Fish" and "Bird" (1964. Collection of the Foundation Pierre Dzhanadda, Martini, Switzerland). The exhibited items of folk art from the Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg) and the Museum of the History of Jews in Russia (Moscow) will complement the presentation of the audience about the origins of Chagall's imagery.

The exhibition is an illustrated catalog album, which includes articles by leading Russian and foreign researchers of the artist.

Source : TG Press Release