Works of Kandinsky and Konchalovsky from Tula went to the exhibition Tver

The works of the founders of the Russian avant-garde from the collection of the Tula Museum of Fine Arts went to the exhibition in Tver. The exchange exhibition is held between the Tula Museum Association and the Tver Regional Art Gallery within the framework of the national project “Family”, the press service of the Tula Museum Association told “MK in Tula”.

For the exhibition, 37 paintings and graphics have already been transferred to Tver. Among them are the works of Vasily Kandinsky, Lyubov Popova, Peter Konchalovsky, Vasily Rozhdestvensky, Alexander Kuprin and other artists who stood at the origins of the Russian avant-garde. The exhibition also includes works by artists who continued artistic experiments after the revolution.

A significant part of the presented works came to the collection of the Tula Museum from private collections and from relatives of artists in the 1970s-1980s. In particular, visitors to the Tver gallery will be able to see the painting by Pyotr Konchalovsky “Valley. Sudak”, created under the influence of the work of Paul Cezanne. The work was transferred to the Tula Museum by the artist’s son Mikhail Konchalovsky.

Another work related to the Crimea will be the landscape of Sudak by Aristarkh Lentulov.

The Tula Museum of Fine Arts is considered one of the largest museums of the Central Federal District. Its collection began to take shape in the early XX century on the basis of the collection of the Chamber of Antiquities, created in 1902. After the revolution of 1917, the fund was replenished with works from the noble estates of the Tula province, and in 1926 it included the collection of the Museum of Painting Culture, created at the Tula Art and Industrial College.

Today, the permanent exhibition of the museum presents works of domestic and Western European artists of the XVI-XX centuries, sculpture, as well as objects of decorative and applied art.