Nukus vanguard will bring to the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum
ARTinvestment.RU   21 февраля 2017

Hundreds of works from the collection of the State Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitsky will attend the exhibition in Moscow this spring

the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin
6 April — 20 may 2017
Moscow, Volkhonka, 12

At the end of March 2017 in the Pushkin Museum. A. S. Pushkin opens exhibition of works from the collection are located in Nukus, the State Museum of arts of Karakalpakstan named after Igor Savitsky, — press-служба of the Ministry of culture and sports of Uzbekistan.

a Delegation from the Pushkin Museum headed by its Director Marina Loshak in early February, was personally selected about a hundred works for the exhibition from the collection of the Museum in Nukus. Museum of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I. V. Savitsky, one of the best art collections in the Asian region and called the "Louvre in the desert", has a significant and voluminous collection of works of Russian art. The collection presents significant works of painting and graphic artists of the Russian avant-garde (I. Kudryashov, B. Rybchenkov); representatives of the Moscow school of painting (A. Kuprin, K. Istomin, A. Osmerkin, K. Christmas, R. Falk); artists, which manifested themselves in 1920-30-х years (B. golopolosov, E. Ermilova-Платовой, Echeistov, L. Regina, V. Pestel, "Group 13", R. Barto, V. Milashevsky, A. Sofronova, etc.), as well as original artists who worked in Central Asia, — by Volkov. Grigorieva, N. Kashina, E. Korovay, N. Karahan, I., Mazel, A. Nikolaev (Usto-Мумина), U. tansykbayev, V. UFI mtseva and others. This unique collection was assembled by the Moscow archaeologist, ethnographer, researcher Igor Vitalyevich Savitsky. Description in 1950, in Karakalpakstan in the composition of the archaeological and-этнографической of the expedition of Igor Savitsky was the founder (in 1966) and first Director (from 1966 to 1984) of the Museum.

Marina Loshak expressed the hope that "revealing the legendary figure of Igor Savitsky, we will be able to attract a huge number of fans who will arrive in Nukus specifically to see the Museum, but also the land of Karakalpakstan, which sustained and inspired him — is an amazing man, a man of Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan and Russia."

the Museum Director noted that "the true treasure of the world level", which is in Uzbekistan, "it needs a lot of research work to the international Museum community", and thanks to the joint efforts of humanity will be able to see "the biggest masterpieces of world level", — quotes Loshak press-служба the Uzbek Ministry of culture.

Sources: fergananews.com, arts-museum.ru