The exhibition, which will open in St. Petersburg the private Faberge Museum on November 25, will present more than 120 works by artists of the school of Paris from a unique collection of Jonas Netter

the fabergé Museum
25 Nov 2017 — on March 25 2018
St.-Петербург, Fontanka river embankment, 21

Since its opening in 2013 Vekselbergom the fabergé Museum has held exhibitions Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dali, forced many to come specifically in Saint-Петербург and stand the queue is shorter than in the Tretyakov gallery. And now new exclusive: taking the Faberge Museum - a unique collection of Jonas Netter, a contemporary and patron of artists of Montparnasse.

the exhibition will feature the most high-profile names and shows the main gems of the collection of the Netter paintings, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Maurice Utrillo, as well as the work of Moses Kisling, Maurice Vlaminck, Andre Derain, Suzanne Valadon and other legendary artists of the Montparnasse.

Montparnasse — quarter of Paris, which became the centre of his artistic, intellectual and social life shortly before the outbreak of the First world war and preserved its unique atmosphere up to the beginning of the Second world war. An integral feature of the Paris of those years was internationalism: artists, writers, politicians and businessmen from around the world gathered there, and many remained to live there. For artists and poets who wished to join the latest trends in art, Montparnasse was a real place of pilgrimage: 1910-х years of the regulars at the cafes were all the leaders and ideologists of European modernism. Ilya Ehrenburg wrote about the famous café Rotonde on the Boulevard Montparnasse: "in the morning for four or five tables in a hot, stuffy, smoke-filled back room sat the Russians, Spaniards, Latin Americans, Scandinavians, people from all ends of the earth, is very poor, God knows what dressed up, starved, and we talked about art, recited poetry, and discussed ways to get the five francs, argued and reconciled. In the end who-нибудь definitely drunk, and he was exposed out."

the New culture of modernism, inspired by the end of the First world war and the ensuing economic recovery that has made art more popular, spawned at the center point — Paris — atmosphere of unprecedented, unlimited freedom. Fernand léger writes that the man of the year "finally raises his head, opens his eyes, looks ahead, shakes off the stress, regaining a taste for life, eagerly longs to dance, to spend money, to walk in full growth, to scream, to yell, to squander". In Montparnasse thriving free life, free love and free art.

However, the Bohemian life in those years was serene and carefree not for all participants. Young artists — Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and many others — lived in poverty, and their images were perceived by the public as controversial and almost wasn't bought. Modigliani's friends called him "modi" is not only-за names, but-за her harmonies of the adjective "damned" (FR. maudit) — is a nickname assigned to him and artists of his circle, whose life was full of hardships and setbacks.

a Huge role in the fate of these artists have played the first regular buyer of their work, the businessman and art lover Jonas Netter. He began to gather his collection by the art dealer léopold Zborowski, whom he met in Paris in 1915. Zborowski beganwork on Netter — to communicate with artists, to collect, to trade and resell their works. With the financial support of Netter, Zborowski concluded agreements with the artists, paid them salaries, gave the money to rent a workshop, the purchase of materials for painting and other expenses. In 1915 Netter and Zborowski made a contract with Modigliani, according to which they paid the artist 300 francs per month, for which they received all of the created canvas. By 1917, the monthly amount payable to the artist, rose to 500, and in 1919 — to 1000 francs. Similar agreements have Netter and there was Zborowski Soutine and Utrillo. Passion Netter their creativity, as well as the works of Moses Kisling, Suzanne Valadon, andré Derain and other artists contributed to the demand for artists of the Paris school and formed a new segment of the art-рынка. Jonas Netter died in 1946, leaving to his family a priceless collection of works by artists who are today recognized as the most important artists of the twentieth century. The Netter collection of more than 70 years was inaccessible to a broad audience, and only in recent years it began to show in Europe.

masterpieces of the Netter collection undoubtedly are a poignant and subtle portraits by Amedeo Modigliani in the last years of his short life. Among them are two portraits of his muses — Jeanne hébuterne. The artist met with her during the carnival in March 1917. Joan was 19, she was a student at a private art school. Despite the dissatisfaction of parents and addiction Modigliani to alcohol and drugs, Joan soon began to live with the artist and bore him a daughter. Modigliani made more than 20 portraits of Jeanne. The love story of Jeanne and Modigliani, captured in his portraits, became one of the most famous romantic stories in twentieth-century art. Jeanne shared with modi all the adversity and committed suicide the day after his death on 24 January 1920.

the exhibition will also be shown a wonderful selection of paintings by a close friend of Modigliani — native of Russia Chaim Soutine. Like his friend, Soutine lived and worked in poverty and was known as neurasthenic, hypersensitive and painful. Your restless nature, the artist fully embodied in painting, creating his own kind of expressionism. In the collection of the Netter lists all the genres in which he worked Soutine, — portraits, still lifes, urban and rural landscapes. Considering himself a successor of the old masters, Soutine claimed that the motive of the images of animal carcasses was suggested to him by Rembrandt's "Carcass of a bull." My version of the painting Soutine painted from nature, by purchasing the carcass at the slaughterhouse and hung it in his workshop. The artist worked slowly, and the stench became so unbearable that the neighbors complained to the Board of health. To give soutenu the opportunity to complete the picture, the nurses suggested to handle the carcass of a bull with formalin. A few days dried the meat has lost its pink color and then the Soutine got in the same slaughterhouse a bucket of fresh blood. Bull, smeared with blood by means of a brush, he was "even more beautiful than it was."

Paintings by Maurice Utrillo presents a series of landscape related to the best — "white" — period of his work. The first lessons of painting Utrillo received from his mother —artist, and young's favorite model of Renoir and Toulouse-Лотрека — of Suzanne Valadon, whose works can be seen at the exhibition. Utrillo became the master of monochrome, a refined sense of tone urban landscapes convey a sense of loneliness and melancholy.

Bright contrast to the ephemeral works of Utrillo create a rich color paintings of Moses Kisling, among which — portrait of the art collector Jonas Netter. Last Kisling became friends, which is not surprising: Kiesling was the true soul of Paris, a man radiating, according to contemporaries, "the energy mix vitality, love, sexuality and creativity." He was a regular visitor to the cafe "Dome", "the Rotunda" and the numerous masquerade balls, which were held in workshops, in private homes and salons.

the exhibition presents more than 120 works by artists of the Paris school, forming the core of a unique collection of Jonas Netter.

the Exhibition is organized by Cultural-историческим Fund "Link of times" and the Faberge Museum in Saint-Петербурге.

exhibition Curator mark Restellini — art historian, one of the world's leading experts on the works of Amedeo Modigliani.

the Exhibition "Modigliani, Soutine and other legends of Paris" recommended for visitors aged 16.

Source: fabergemuseum.ru