March 27 marked the opening of an exhibition of the famous Russian painter Pyotr Konchalovsky entitled To the Evolution of the Russian Avant-garde.
According to the museum’s official website, the exhibition features around 120 works provided by partner-museums and private collectors. Apart from that, the exposition comprises pictures from the collection of the painter’s family, rare archives, papers and private things, with many of them being exhibited for the first time.
Pyotr Konchalovsky is a major Russian artist of the 20th century. In 1910-1917 he was the member of a famous "Jack of Diamonds" group, which intended to integrate plastic discoveries of the French postimpressionism and traditions of the Russian folk art into methods of easel painting. In the decade after the Great October Revolution Konchalovsky tried to combine the heritage of the Old Masters and traditions of the Russian realistic painting of the 19th century. His postwar works prove that up to the last days of his life Konchalovsky maintained an independent position in art, which in general reflects the basic trends of the Soviet art of the 1920-1950's. At the same, he managed to reflect in his paintings the plastic achievements of the Russian Avant-garde of the early 20th century.
The exhibition, which embraces all periods of Konchalovsky’s work, will run till July 15.
