Exhibition from the series "Masterpieces from world museums in the Hermitage" is the famous painting by Paul Cezanne "the card Players" from the collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London

GOE, September 13 @November 17. 2013
St-Петербург, Hermitage, Apollo hall (hall № 260)

In the Apollo hall of the Winter Palace opened the exhibition from the series "Masterpieces from world museums in the Hermitage", which presents a picture of Paul cézanne "the card Players" from the collection of the Courtauld Gallery, London. The Courtauld gallery is famous worldwide as one of the most remarkable collections of the new French zhivopisi@

Cezanne presents the Courtauld ten works of the highest value, where the greatest admiration are figure compositions "card Players" and "Smoker" landscapes "Mount St. Victoria" and "Lake Annecy" and "still life with plaster statuette" — genre in which the artist was ravnik@

Series "Players" occupies an important place in the Mature works of Cezanne. He first turned to this subject in 1890-е years. "The card players" were written on real experiences while staying in Ja-де-Буфан, the estate, where the youth of the artist and where he returned in late godi@

the Peasants who lived near AIX and worked on the estate, have served as models for the series of works "the card Players", and for single group studies, mostly smokers. Their number includes a depiction of a gardener (Courtauld Gallery), who became later the player left London on the canvas, and "Smoker" from the Hermitage collection, which posed logs Field, which became the player sprawa@

Sequence performed variations of "Players" are not known precisely: documents by which it could be traced, no. Young Provencal poet J. Gasquet, to whom befriended Cezanne, claimed later that he began a series of paintings of small size (just refers to the London variation of "Players") and large finished — they are in the Metropolitan Museum in new-Йорке and the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. However, Gasquet could not know how advanced the entire series: cézanne never showed their work. In 1948 Bernard Dorival, a prominent French scholar of painting of the late XIX century, has suggested that in fact the whole creative process took place in reverse order. Then the last two songs were two pictures of approximately equal sizes stored in London and in Paris, in the Musee d'orsay. This is the view as the organizers of the exhibition "cézanne. Card players", held in 2010 in the Courtauld Gallery and curator of the Department of Western European art of the State Hermitage Museum A. G. Kostenevich@

Variations of "Players" that are stored in the museums of America, with a large number of characters, are accurately crafted the actual details of the costumes of the characters and the background. In later versions of the collections Doha, Paris, London compostion of two figures, the detail of the image gives way to the expression and picturesqueness of execution. The energy of the painting here, compared to the American versions, increases. This is especially true for the version that is exhibited today in the Hermitage: blurred, blurred background, snatched from the frame and is shown by itself, is not perceived as a wall of the tavern, and seems abstract zhivopisi@

Theme card game French fine art is not rare. It is referred to L. Massone in painting or O. Daumier in the schedule, mainly finding in these subjects occasion for irony. In a similar vein, acted in the early 1890-х of years, that is, simultaneously with the cézanne and the artists of the official salons. However, Cezanne in his painting never was inclined to humour. His characters owns a smoldering passion that is not expressed in facial expressions or gestures, but in the dynamism and beauty of zhivopisi@

the exhibition Editorial-издательским Department of the State Hermitage Museum created directory "Paul Cezanne. Players card. From the collection of the Courtauld gallery". Author — albert G. Kostenevich, PhD, chief scientific officer of Department of West European art. Exhibition curator — N. B. Demina, researcher of the Department of Western European fine iskusstva@

Source: hermitagemuseum.org