Today at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin opens exhibition of about 100 works from the collection Kantor - works of Repin, Serov, Serebrya, Bakst, Chagall, Soutine, Modigliani, Rothko, Kabakov, Bulatov, etc.

Chaim Soutine
Red ladder in Cagnes . 1923-1924
Source : press release of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin

Pushkin Museum. Pushkin
December 3, 2013 - February 16, 2014
Ul. Volhonka , 12

Today at the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin opens the exhibition " My Homeland - in my soul ... ", representing the works of Western European and Russian art of the late XIX - XX century from the collection of the Museum of avant-garde art ( MAGMA ).

The museum was founded in 2001 on the initiative of Kantor , public figure, businessman and philanthropist . Exhibition of works by world famous and recognized masters of Jewish descent from the MAGMA meeting will be a great example of an embodiment of tolerance , a shining example of interaction and interpenetration of cultures .

exhibition will consist of several parts, each of which is devoted to a period in the history of art. Part of the exhibition brings together two sections - art abroad XIX - XX centuries and the first third of the twentieth century. It includes works by masters of Russian Silver Age and the School of Paris . It works by artists such as " Paris Cafe » and " The Rape of Europa » Valentin Serov , costumes for the ballet" Narcissus » Leon Bakst ,« Portrait of Mademoiselle Nevedomskaya » "The Church (Green )» Robert Falk .

school of Paris famous works will be presented : "Vision (Self-Portrait with Muse )» Marc by Marc Chagall , « Portrait of a girl in black dress " Amedeo Modigliani , family labor 1910s Chaim Chaim Soutine , abstract compositions Sonia Delaunay , Ossip Zadkine and Jacques Jacques Lipchitz , brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner .

In the " Art of the second half of XX - beginning of XXI century " viewers will get acquainted with pictures Alexander Tischler and a whole galaxy of nonconformist artists as those whose creative development coincided with the period of the" thaw " the beginning of the 1960s : Vladimir Weisberg , , Edward Steinberg , Vladimir Yakovlev , and the younger generation - Erik Bulatov , Ilya Kabakov , Victor Victor D. Pivovarova , Grisha Grisha Bruskin , Vladimir Yankylevsky .

Western European art of the second half of the XX century, represented by the works of the greatest masters - Mark Rothko and Lusiena Freud .

total, the exhibition will show 100 works , allowing for a fresh look at creativity artists who through their talent and national traditions have had a tremendous impact on the world artistic process .

Source : press release Pushkin Museum. Pushkin