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Саратовский государственный
художественный музей
имени А.Н.Радищева

WESTERN ART

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RUSSIAN and SOVIET ART

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   By contrast, the collection of the late 19th century Russian art
    assumed basically its final shape within Alexei Bogoliubov's
     lifetime, who asssociated with the most prominent artists of the
      time.That accounts for the broad selection of first-rate canvases
      by Ivan Shishkin, Fedor Vasiliev, Ilya Repin and other Itinerants
      in the museum's collection.
     I.Repin's portraits of his daughter Nadia and Alexei Bogoliubov,
     a lifelong friend of the artist's, rate among the best creations
     belonging to his brush.
     The museum possesses the country's best collection of Bogoliubov
      numbering over 200 paintings, studies and about himself,
     1000 sheets of graphic works.

Сальватор Роза. Пейзаж с купальщицами
Salvator Rosa. Landscape with Female Bathers

    Of the most value are his picturesque landscapes imbued with a
     chamber mood, which follow the tradition of French realistic
      landscape painting. Due to the works, accumulated in the museum
      within the 20's (among which were the paintings by Vasili Surikov,
    Alexei Savrasov and Isaak Levitan), this section was significantly
     extended to represent every conspicuous phenomenon    of national
    artistic herittage. The Russian art of the turn the 19th and 20th
   centuries, extremely rich in bright, but not inferequently coflicting
   phenomena,   is comprehensively represented in the museum.
    Primarily, that refers to the works of the leading figures    of two most
    significant artistic associations of the   time in Russia -the
    "World of Art"and the "Association of the Russian Artists".

Якопо Бассано. Наполнение Ноева ковчега
Jacopo Bassano. Animals Entering the Noah's Ark

The retrospective vision of the "World of Art" masters,
prone to poeticize the past, merging with the exquisite
   stylistics of their creations, can be observed in the works by
   Konstantin Bogaevsky, Nikolai Roerich, Alexander Benois and
   Konstantin Somov. Close the "World of Art" is Alexander Golovin,
      an outstanding theatrical designer, represented in collection by
   both sketches for his stage sets and easel-painting.
        The paintings of Moscow member of the "Association of the
   Russian Artists"(Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, Abram Arkhipov,
    Sergei Vinogradov, Stanislaw Zhukovsky and others) are distinguished
     by an unrestrained artistic creativity, an intense interest in the model
     and an outspoken emotionality.

Неизвестный фламандский художник. Пейзаж с хижиной. XVII
Unknown Flemish Artist. Landscape with a Hut on the Hill. 17th cent.

    The urge to partray Russia and its distinctive national character
     is traced not only in the paintings by Nikhail Nesterov,
    Philipp Maliavin and Boris Kustodiev, but in the works of the
    artists, who belonged to so-called "Russian avant-garde", and,
    primarily, to the "Jack of Diamonds" art association:Petr Konchalovsky,
    Ilya Mashkov, Alexander Kuprin, Robert Falk' Aristarkh Lentulov.
      A prominent place in the exhibition is occupied by the artists of the
     "Saratov school". A loft and poetical treatment of the motif
      together with a monumental and decorative way of its representation
      are typical of such different artists as Viktor Borisov-Musatov,
     Pavel Kuznetsov, Petr Utkin , Alexander Savinov
      and the sulptor Alexander Matveev.