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The last “peaceful” lithography of Sperling for the first time left the walls of the Scriabin Museum
Exhibition of one exhibit “You, All-Pure...” opened in the Museum of Modernity
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The composer Alexander Scriabin was friends with the artist Nikolai Sperling. This in the collection of the Scriabin Museum tells including the lithography of the master “Tibi Purissima” (“You, the All-Pure”), which the master created just before the outbreak of the First World War, it was his last work in peacetime imperial times.
The artist took the plot of lithography from the medieval legend sung by Alexander Pushkin in the poem “The poor knight lived in the world...” The work Sperling gave to his friend in 1914 and for more than a century it is part of the memorial exhibition.
A trip to the Samara Museum of Modernity for lithography was the debut.
