At the Crimean shaft preparing for an exhibition of Nikolai Ge

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At the Crimean shaft are preparing for an exhibition of Nikolai Ge


In the Tretyakov Gallery shaft ends with the installation of one of the biggest in this year's exhibition projects. The exposition, dedicated to the 180th anniversary of Nikolai Ge, will open next week. Starting Wednesday everyone will be able to see the paintings and graphics of the famous artist from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, the collection of Kiev and Minsk, as well as from the Paris museum Dorse.

Peter the Great and Tsarevich Alexei during Lavrushinsky left lane. Prior to February of next year, the questioning went down in history will take place here in the Tretyakov Gallery shaft - ends with a grand assembly of the exhibition, timed to coincide with the anniversary of Nicholas Gay. Landscapes, portraits, pencil drawings - only 230 pieces. The story of the artist's work - is both the story of his life.

"He always does not coincide with some major stages in the development of Russian art. That this rise of realist art, he could not fully identify. He went from St. Petersburg, he settles on the village Ivanovo Chernihiv province, where he is engaged in agriculture," - says curator Tatiana Karpova exhibition.

It's been 70 years of the 19th century. Nikolai Ge did not wrote a few years. Became interested in religion, I read a lot. Later he would create his famous "Passion." Especially for this exhibition have restored one of the major works of the series - "The Court Sanhedrin."

I was diagnosed with pictures "asphalt disease": a canvas for swelling appeared, it seemed that the paint layer flows. Many restorers of such a "patient" refused. In the sense of painting led a master of the Tretyakov Gallery.
They're in record time - just one month - to reconstruct the "Heralds of the resurrection." Until recently, it looked like a twisted sheet of plywood with muddy stains.

"It's a long time stored on the shaft. And the state, of course, not exposition. The work was very dark. Foreground virtually unreadable. No person was read, facial expressions, figures of warriors. They were dark. The figures were all just dark. There were still further expansion of varnish ", - says Andrey Golubeyko, head of the restoration of oil paintings of XVIII - early XX century.

This conversation Pilate with Jesus is with witnesses. Museum workers have long known: under a layer of paint is another picture - a picture, "Mercy". But this year, making X-rays, found yet a third layer of the picturesque. Scientific evidence yet, but critics suggest that this is an early version of "Crucifixion."

Total Nikolai Ge were five of them. Know the fate of only one leaf. At this exhibition, he was brought from Paris museum Dorse. Fifty works of graphic art back to Russia from Switzerland. Images son Nikolai Ge in 1897 transferred the Tretyakov Gallery. However, with one condition - that does not lie in the vaults, and were on display.

"Creativity is not encouraged Ge censorship. His works were taken from the show. After the death of Nikolai Tretiakov, son, when going abroad, asked the Council Galleries to return him back those works which were not in the exhibit were not involved," - says Nina Markova , Project Officer, graphics XVIII - early XX century.

Later, the drawings were in some Ge Beatrice de Vattvil. In the 1970s, a Swiss art dealer accidentally found them at a flea market. I bought the entire collection. For four months, she belongs to the Tretyakov Gallery with the support of sponsors. The largest museum in Russia was never able to buy valuable drawings, from which he had once refused. A voluntary basis.

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