The exhibition consists of twenty-seven paintings by renowned master of the Russian avant-garde Pavel Filonov (1882-1941). Among the exhibits are such seminal works as Banquet of Kings (1913), Dairy Maids (1914) and Flowers of the World Dawning (1915). Painter, graphic artist and theatrical designer, Pavel Filonov was born in Moscow and trained in St Petersburg. During the first decade of the artist's career, he worked on a cycle of painterly and graphic works entitled Chant of the World Flowering in which he expressed his ideas mainly in figurative images. In the early 1920s, however, Filonov turned to abstract art. The late 1920s and 1930s were the most difficult years in the artist's life and are characterised by a diversity of stylistic devices. Pavel Filonov died in the Siege of Leningrad.
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