The exhibition, devoted to the
150th birth anniversary of Konstantin Korovin (1861 - 1939) for the
first time in such a great and diverse scale presents the creative oeuvre of
the world-famous Russian artist. About 250 works from the Russian art, theatre,
musical and literary museums and the private collections reflect the basic
stages of the artist's creative path from the works that were made in the
beginning of the 1880's and considered as the innovatory phenomenon in the
Russian painting of this period, to the 1920-1930's when Korovin lived and
worked in emigration in France. Alongside with the art works there are
presented the documental materials connected with Korovin's life and art.
The freshness and
naturalness of comprehension of the outworld, free and impassioned manner of
painting, life-asserting characteristic of the images brought the artist the well-deserved
fame of the greatest representative of the so-called Russian Impressionism. The
outstanding talent of Konstantin Korovin, who is the prominent master of
landscape and still life painting, is also fully and diversely revealed in his
portraits and genre works (A Chorister
Women, Beside the Balcony. Spanish Women, Portrait of T. Liubatovich, Paper
Lanterns, Portrait of Fyodor Shalyapin
and the others). At the exhibition Korovin's art development is presented also by
the stage design works and the newly restored complex of the painted panels
that decorated the walls of the Russian Pavilion on the Parisian World Fair in
1900.
Sponsors of the exhibition are VTB
Bank, OJSC Lukoil and OJSC Severstal.
  
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