Unknown figure Vrubel and other "gifts to the Museum"
ARTinvestment.RU   02 сентября 2014

4-8 September, the State Pushkin Museum exposes visitors to the new Museum admission

the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin
4-8 September 2014
Manor courtyard GMF, Moscow, Prechistenka street, 12/2

the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin (GMF) to the Day of Moscow traditionally exposes visitors to the new Museum admission. The exhibition, organized stock services of the Museum, includes more than 30 valuable items and works of art received by the Museum as a gift in the last Vremya@

volume unselfishly donated to the Museum values we can speak about the phenomenon of GMP: more than a third of his congregation today is made up of gifts, including many invaluable life memorials of two related to A. S. Pushkin and his contemporaries, the poet-символистом and philosopher Andrei Bely ("Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely" on the Arbat — one of the branches of the GMF). About the most significant personal collections given to the Museum, Moscow Days the visitors will be told at a special guided tours in the Museum funds ("Open storage GMF"). The tours will take place on Saturday, 6 September, 13:30 and 15:00.

the Exhibition "gifts to the Museum" will last only a few days, from 4 to 8 September. After that, the artifacts back to the relevant departments of the Museum Fund, where they will continue to engage in scientific staff. After careful consideration, attribution and, if necessary, restoration of objects will take place in the permanent exhibitions or thematic exhibitions of the State Museum of A. S. Pushkin@

Exposition that will be held in the Manor courtyard of the Museum, will be relatively small, but it will allow us to assess how interesting exhibits collection was replenished musea@

among the gifts on display at the exhibition — seven watercolors G. Sattler on the theme of the Napoleonic wars (gift of A. I. Borovikova); portrait of Prince P. A. Vyazemsky, based on a photograph made in Venice in 1853 (!) (gift of L. V. Berlin); three French fans XVIII — nineteenth century (gift of M. B. Istomina); porcelain inkwell in the form of women's shoes 1820-х years (a gift of A. V. Kosushkina); needlework table second half of the nineteenth century (gift of A. A. Bernstein); piano company Frad the mid-nineteenth century (gift of A. Rudentsova); painting "Lukomorye" (1967) well-known Palekh artist A. I. Zaitsev (a gift of A. M. Gostev); graphics on the theme of Pushkin O. K. Komov, a renowned sculptor, people's artist of the USSR (a gift of I. O. Komova); the manuscript of "the Word about Pushkin" (the gift of the writer F. Iskander)...

Absolute "gem" among them is unknown figure Mikhail Vrubel — watercolor sketch illustration for the poem the Demon by Mikhail Lermontov. figure will be presented at the exhibition "gifts to the Museum" from 5 to 7 sentyabrya@

donator — Sergei O. Prokof'ev, famous Russian philosopher, poet, publicist, the head of Russian anthroposophists worldwide Anthroposophical society, dear grandson of composer Sergei Prokofiev@

Last years Sergey has lived in Switzerland, in the town of Dornach, where in his time in the construction of the First Goetheanum, the famous Anthroposophical Church, was attended by Andrew White with his first wife Asay Turgenevo (they were followers of the teachings of Professor Steiner). Head of "Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely" Monika Spivak has long maintained friendly and scientific relations with S. O. Prokofiev, which is very appreciated the uniqueness of the world's only Museum of Andrey Bely and present the gift of his — not Pervy@

tragically, meeting Monica Spivak with Sergey Olegovich, which he gave to the Museum figure Vrubel and several life memorials of two, was last. It took place just a few days before his departure from life after a serious and prolonged bolezni@

figure Mikhail Vrubel — witness dramatic and intricate the lives of its owners. According to the story of Sergei O. Prokofiev, the figure belonged to his grandmother, the legendary Spanish singer Carolyn Kodin (stage name — Lina Lubera; 1897-1989), first wife of Sergei Prokofiev. Her affair with the Russian composer began in Paris in 1918. In marriage concluded in 1923, were born two sons — Stanislav and Oleg. In early 1936 Lived back in the USSR, where Lina received Soviet citizenship. In 1941 Sergei Prokofiev suddenly left his first wife and children, and in 1948 he married a second time (without an official divorce with Lina Prokofieva). In the same 1948-м Lina was arrested, accused of espionage and treason and sentenced-тройкой to 20 years of strict regime. The proud Spaniard spent in Stalin's camps eight terrible years (released in 1956-м). Only in 1974, she was able to travel to Europe emigrated there after her youngest son. Lived in England, then in France, buried in Madona@

figure Vrubel was acquired by Lina Prokofieva in the late 1930-х well-known Moscow collector, and in 1970-е taken emigrated from the USSR to the owner. The giver relic inherited from his father, Oleg Sergeyevich Prokofiev (youngest son of Lina). Passing it to the Museum, Sergey O. had particularly asked that he wants to see her not in the Tretyakov gallery (where a large collection of works by Vrubel), namely "the Memorial apartment of Andrei Bely", believing that this figure fully captures the spirit of symbolism and spiritual quest of Andrew White, a writer, mystic and anthroposophy@

Returning to Russia the work of Mikhail Vrubel, of course, requires further study, consultation with experts-искусствоведами. In composition it may refer to a series of works depicting two characters of the poem — Demon and Tamara. By assumption of the donor, it — part of a diptych, the other half of which (location unknown), supposed to be sitting on the couch Tamara. As you know, in 1890-е years Mikhail Vrubel executed more than 30 illustrations to Lermontov's poem "Demon". They were originally ordered for the jubilee (50-летию the poet's death) edition of the collected works of M. Y. Lermontov ed. by p. P. Konchalovsky. But in the book were not all the work of the artist — as explained, the concept of publication was not understanding Vrubel poet. It's possible that donated to the Museum figure, just from the number of "not logged in"?...