Pushkin Museum. Pushkin, February 18 - May 18, 2014
Department of Private Collections , Moscow, ul. Volhonka , 10

Today in the Department of Private Collections Pushkin Museum. Pushkin opens the exhibition " Surrealism and the livre d'artiste», which is the first time such a large scale will show the surreal works of famous artists of the XX century - Jean Arp, Enrico Bai, Hans Bellmer , Victor Brauner , Salvador Dali , Oscar Dominguez , Giorgio de Chirico, Wifredo Lam , André Masson , Roberto Matta , Joan Miro , Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy , Dorothea Tanning , and Leonor Fini Max Ernst . Created in the genre of " artist's book » - livre d'artiste from 1924 to 1980 , they will allow to trace the history of formation and development of Surrealism as a special direction in twentieth-century art .

The exhibition features more than 400 graphic works from 60 major publications. The exhibits will include such rarities as the work of Andre Masson (Limbour, Georges. Soleils Bas. Paris: Galerie Simon (Henry Kahnweiler), 1924) and the work of Salvador Dali (Char, René. Artine. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1930), Max frottazha Ernst (Histoire naturelle. Paris: Madame Bucher, 1926) and his collages (Une semaine de bonté, ou les sepr elements capitaux. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, 1934). The real surprise for the audience would be anti-war work of Pablo Picasso Sueño y mentira de Franco, made ​​in 1937. The reason for its creation served Madrid bombing on orders from Franco at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The artist created it in parallel with the " Guernica ».

Roberto Matta Coloured etching with aquatint . 46 × 38 Source : arts-museum.ru

André Masson Coloured etching with aquatint . 46 × 35 Source : arts-museum.ru

visited the exhibition, viewers will be able to compare the two cycles of illustrations for product canonized surrealist Alfred Jarry "King Ubu " by Joan Miro and Roberto Matta , and first see graphic cycles by artists such as Hans Bellmer , Wifredo Lam, Leonor Fini .

Exhibition in the Department of Private Collections allow the Russian audience not only continue exploring livre d'artiste, but also to discover a new page in the history of surrealism, an interesting phenomenon in the art of XX century .

All works for exhibition presents Russian collectors George Gens and Boris Fridman. Curators of the exhibition: Boris Fridman , Lawrence Safaya .

Source : arts-museum.ru