At the exhibition ""the most wonderful art": Icons from the collection of Grigory Leps" will show a collection of 200 icons, which the artist collected more than 20 years

Moscow, State historical Museum
5 September – 6 November 2018
Red square, 1

"most wonderful art" called the icon of Nikolai Leskov in his story "the Sealed angel": "Luke Kirilov passionately loved icon of the Shrine, and he had, gentlemen, of the icon all prichudye, letters of the skilled, ancient, or of Greek, or the first Novgorod and Stroganov icon-painters. Icon vs icon better shone not so much the salaries as sharpness and smoothness most wonderful paintings. Such hills I have since never seen!"

Gregory Lepse among the participants antique salon (the artist is almost always attends) have been the glory of man, deeply immersed in the subject. He is well versed in the icon itself, not shifting these questions to the consultants. Field of interest @- things Museum value, mostly signed & dated by. In his collection are works by old believer masters of Pomerania, Moscow, Romanovo–Borisoglebsk, the Volga region, the Baltic States, the work of the icon painters of the Armory chamber, Mstera, Palekh and others At the exhibition will be presented works of famous artists (M. I. Dikarev and I. S. Chirikov, V. P. Guryanov), and works of the newly discovered names @- Bronina Z. F., I. D. Krausova, Ya. a. Bogatenko, A. D. Borozdina.

Curator — doctor of Philology, chief researcher of the State historical Museum Elena Yukhimenko.

the Exhibition opens to the public on Wednesday 5 September 2018 in the New exhibition hall of the Museum (Red square, building 1, entrance from the resurrection gate and the "zero kilometer"). The price of an adult ticket without benefits is 400 rubles.

Grigory Leps not only collects the icons, but also books and engravings with views of Moscow and St-Петербурга.

Sources: shm.ru, mkrf.ru, grigoryleps.ru

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