Mary of Kazan Exhibition in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg gallery "July 12" opens a forgotten name of the artist Mary Borisovny Kazan (1914-1942). The exhibition includes about 70 works from private collections in St. Petersburg and Moscow
Gallery "July 12", April 26 - July 1, 2013
St. , nab. Griboyedov Canal, 100
Gallery "July 12" is the first official exhibition of the artist Mary Borisovny Kazan (1914-1942).
Her name disappeared almost without a trace on the dramatic pages of Soviet history 1920-30-ies. About a hundred paintings canvases, hundreds of pencil drawings, as well as memories of her younger sister Tatiana Borisovny Kazan - that's basically all that allows you to extract the name from oblivion. Meanwhile paintings and graphic works of the artist are present in major museum collections, as Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, and also cause the interest of collectors.
MARIA KAZANSKAYA Self-portrait (in white blouse and blue scarf). 1937 Oil on canvas. 44,5 x 31,3 Source: | MARIA KAZANSKAYA Landscape (with a fence). Mid-1930 Oil on cardboard. 53 x 40 Source: |
The exhibition includes about 70 works from private collections in St. Petersburg and Moscow, which gives a complete overview of all stages of the creative development of the master.
to exhibition project released to coincide with the first monograph on the artist, which was published about 90 works of Kazan, a unique documentary materials and catalog of virtually all the surviving paintings and drawings.
Maria B. Kazan (1914-1942) was born in St. Petersburg in the family of intellectuals. Since the end of the school year at the Academy of Fine Arts was set, Kazan began taking painting lessons from Ermolayeva .
MARIA KAZANSKAYA Trees . 1932-1934 Oil on canvas. 39,5 x 49,5 Source: | MARIA KAZANSKAYA Pink House. 1932-1934 Oil on canvas. 30,5 x 40,5 Source: |
In his work, Kazan chosen direction characterized by emotional, impulsive, color, line and composition nervous. The artist was trained by Ermolayeva to December 1934 - the time when she was arrested as a "counter-revolutionary party groups trying to establish an illegal foreign relations and a leading anti-Soviet propaganda among others».
MARIA KAZANSKAYA Jug. 1932-1934 Oil on canvas. 45,2 x 37,2 Source: | MARIA KAZANSKAYA portrait of a woman in blue. 1932-1934 Oil on canvas. 49,4 x 40,4 Source: |
In March 1935, Mary of Kazan released. She's still quite a short time engaged in painting and stopped writing in September 1937. Young artist died in 1942 in the besieged Leningrad.
Recent exhibitions of works of Mary of Kazan held at the Museum of Private Collections "On the banks of the Neva River" (2001), in the Benois Wing of the Russian Museum "Time to assemble" (April 2008). Creativity Mary of Kazan has only recently begun to open to the general public.
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