Assembly of Tver Regional Art Gallery show in TG
ARTinvestment.RU   18 октября 2012

The exhibition "Russian painting and sculpture of the first half of XIX century from the Tver Regional Picture Gallery" presents about 60 brightest and most significant for the museum's collection of works

Tretyakov Gallery, October 18 - November 25, 2012
Corps of Engineers, Lavrushinsky lane , 12

Today at the State Tretyakov Gallery presents "Russian painting and sculpture of the first half of XIX century from the Tver Regional Art Gallery." Thirty-sixth exhibition of the federal project "Golden Map of Russia" continues to acquaint the public with the capital's best museum collections in the Russian provinces. This time it is the Tver Regional Art Gallery - one of the oldest regional museums in Russia.

Grigory Soroka View of the estate Spassky Tambov province. 1840 canvas. 69 x 88,5 Source: Press Release THG

BASIL clerk Gallery "Receptacle feels eternal" in the estate Kurakins " Nadezhdino. " 1795-1805 canvas. 40.5 x 56 Source: Press Release THG

The museum opened to the public in 1866, currently has about 40,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, decorative arts XIII - XXI centuries. Especially proud of the museum - a collection of paintings, is more than 7000 exhibits. The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery are about sixty brightest and most significant for the museum's collection of works of the first half of XIX century, during the reign of two emperors - Alexander I (1801-1825) and Nicholas I (1825-1855), known in Russia as the culture of the Romantic period. At this time, the main artistic discoveries occurred in the genres of landscape and portrait, purchased by genre.

unique collections gallery gives one of Russia's best collections of Russian portrait. The exhibition presents the genre in a wide range: from small to the largest ceremonial portraits by artists of XVIII - early XIX century B. Borovikovsky , B. Tropinin , A. Venetsianov . The show became "Portrait of Alexander I» (1809) brushes court painter Paul I , who is considered the forerunner of a romantic portrait. Of particular interest is a series of portraits of unknown local artists brush with different identities and high artistic level, "Portrait of a merchant woman in a red shawl" (one quarter of the XIX century), "Portrait of the wife of Archpriest Mozhzhuhinoy" (1830) and others. This unique gallery of different social strata Tver society demonstrates a special time - the emergence of the interest of the merchants and the emerging bourgeoisie to portraiture.

Vladimir Borovikovsky Portrait of Alexander V. Polikarpov (1753-1811). 1796 canvas. 72 x 58,5 Source: Press Release THG

Pyotr Basin ( ?) Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Zhadimirovskoy nee Markelova (1795-1845). First floor. In XIX. Oil on canvas, 94.3 x 76 Source: Press Release THG

landscape genre are works of outstanding artists of his time. Cloth F. Alexeyev, masters' perspective painting "," View of the Exchange and the Admiralty of the Peter and Paul Fortress "(1810s) - one of the best in the collection. The traditional ceremonial landscape artist introduces the theme of everyday life in the city, a sense of communal harmony promotes fine scenic design of light and air. Creativity F. Alekseyev has had a great impact on C. Shchedrin («Sorrento." 1825), in whose classic rigor gives way to a romantic perception of nature. The variety of motives, geographical expansion of the landscape appear in the works of Ivan Konstantinovich I. Aivazovsky . Landscapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, M. Vorobiev , Gregory and Nicanor Chernetsov , along with other paintings and drawings XIX century Russian masters were transferred to the museum in 1922 by collectors M. Grachev and A. Katkov.

Special attention is paid to the works on display A. Venetsianov and his school. In his work by genre formed into a coherent artistic system. Moscow audience provided a rare opportunity to see one of the best paintings of the artist, which is a hallmark of the museum, and therefore rarely leaves its walls - "Shepherd with Dudko" (1825).

A. Venetsianov organized in the acquired in 1815 by the estate in the Tver province Safonkovo ​​art school for children of serfs. Among the canvases A. Venetsianov students - works Krylov, G. Soroka, and Alexei V. A. Tyranova , originating from Tver burghers. Some of these works were acquired by the museum's collection in the second half of the XIX century.

Grigory Soroka View Manor islands from the Big Island. 1830-1840 canvas. 72.4 x 97,5 Source: Press Release THG

YAKOV Kolokolnikov-VORONIN Self-portrait with his wife and son Stepanida Semyonovna Alexander . Start 1820 canvas. 67.5 x 75,5 Source: Press Release THG

One of the most talented students Venetsianov A. G. Soroka was a serf P. Milyukov (his portrait made by the Forty in 1820, is represented in the exhibition). Associated with the estate Miliukovs most creative life, the forty, here he met A. Venetsianov and a portrait of a teacher (1840), also included in the exhibition. Visitors can also see an important acquisition for the museum in 1998 - "View of the estate of the islands with the Big Island" (1846), the forty. The painting depicts Miliukovs estate amid the romantic landscape park. This work was known only by description NK Milyukov, the grandson of the owner of the artist, published in "Old Times" in 1916. Then follow the pictures were lost. In the late twentieth century, the painting was discovered in a private meeting in Tver, and after confirming the expertise acquired in the collection of the gallery. The product arrived in poor condition, and appeared before the audience only after a complex restoration.

exhibition gives an idea of ​​the collection of the Tver Regional Art Gallery and see the unknown Moscow audience of Russian art of the first half of the XIX century.

Source : Press Release THG