Temporary exhibition of paintings of Russian descent, participants of the "School of Paris" - Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Glyukmana Gregory, Michael Kikoin Pinkhus Kremen, Ossip Zadkine and others. Altogether there are 56 works

Art Museum, Vitebsk
May 7 - July 30, 2013
Vitebsk,. Lenin, 32

in Vitebsk Art Museum exhibition "Artists of the Paris School of Belarus" from the corporate collection "BGB", museums and private collections.

Vitebsk Museum - the third in the way of a traveling exhibition has already visited the National Art Museum in Minsk and Gomel Museum. Belgazprombank initiated and directly involved in the process of repatriation of paintings born in Belarus and become world famous artists of the Paris school of the early twentieth century. It took about a year to the management of the bank is to buy from private collectors and renowned auction about 50 works of Belarusian artists. The most valuable specimens - "Lovers" Chagall and the "Big Meadows in Chartres" Soutine (by the way, is the only product of the artist within the territory of Belarus). BGB's Corporate collection is recognized as the largest collection of works by Expressionist School of Paris, not only in their own country, but also in Eastern and Central Europe.

Besides the works from the corporate collection BGB, the exhibition will see paintings , etchings and lithographs School of Paris artists from private collections of Belarus, Russia, and from the museum collections.

As the researcher Vitebsk Art Museum Lyudmila Malashchanka in Vitebsk art project "Artists Paris School of Belarus "is presented in an expanded format. Total exposure in the 56 works, 27 of them - from the collection of BGB, 19 - from private collections, and 10 - from the National Art Museum in Minsk. The exhibition shows the work of 14 natives of Belarus, who worked in Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Marc Chagall A vision of the Apocalypse. 1967 Paper, etching, aquatint Source: Yakov BALGLEY Baby girl Source:

The exhibition includes six paintings and drawings Marc Chagall :« Love »(1981)," The Vision of the Apocalypse "(1967)," Way of the Cross "(1967)," acrobat on a Horse "(1959)," Self-Portrait "(1973 ) and "James and the Angels" (1980).

Painting "Lovers" - one of the jewels of the corporate collection BGB. The great master of Vitebsk created it in '94. In this masterpiece brought together all the "brand" signs Chagall: bouquets, bestiary, hometown and lovers, hovering over him.

in the same room with the works of Chagall's paintings are exhibited and his teacher - Yuri Pen . His work is represented by two works - a self-portrait and a portrait of the young Marc Chagall.

Vitebsk exposure differs from Minsk and Gomel fact that you can see one of the most interesting paintings in the collection of BGB - a picture Chaim Soutine «Big Meadows in Chartres." This work after exposure to the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus was under restoration.

Art project in Vitebsk is a new name - the first time in Belarus shows the picture Gregory Glyukmana « Naked. " This work Belgazprombank recently purchased at an auction at Christie's in London. Gregory Gluckman was born in Vitebsk, and very symbolic that the first picture of this unique artist saw in his native land.

GREGORY Gluckman Nude Source: belta.by

SEM Zarfin Notre Dame. Around 1950 Source:

Spectators at the Vitebsk Art Museum is also open for themselves or once again come in contact with the work of artists such as Michael Kikoin , Pinkhus Flint , , Jacob Balgley , Osip Lubich , Eugene Zak , Robert Genin , Sam Zarfin and others.

After the Vitebsk art project will continue its tour of regional centers. The next most likely, it will take Brest.

Sources : news.tut.by , ng.by , m-chagall.ru , artinvestment.ru