Around the Pushkin Museum scandal flares up

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11.11.11 18:35 Art Collectors TV: Pushkin Museum exhibited a fake
11/11/11 15:18 TC Rain
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Around the Pushkin Museum flares scandal.
 It can significantly impair a reputation due to counterfeit, as stated by Modigliani and dotoshlivogo collector-anonymous.

It all started with that edition Artnewspaper with reference to an anonymous collector reported that exhibited in Moscow, "Portrait of Marevna" from the private collection is not genuine. It is believed that the painting, written by Amedeo Modigliani in 1919, depicts the artist-immigrant Maria Bronislavovna Vorobyova-Stebelskaya.

According to collectors, which are confirmed by some anonymous sources, in 2006, he intended to purchase "Portrait Marevna" for $ 3 million and even held a scientific examination, which took 40 days, but reportedly revealed traces of pigment in the painting, dating from the period after 1940. A picture - 1919.

The inclusion of questionable work by Modigliani exhibition at the Pushkin Museum predyubileynuyu extremely annoyed buyer failed, and he decided to go to press. And he found support. Art dealer and gallery owner, "Our artists' Natalia Kournikova has also expressed doubts about the authenticity of" Portrait of Marevna. " She pointed to the insignificance of the resemblance and the fact that in his memoirs, Vorobyov Stebelskaya does not say anywhere that sat for Modigliani.

 And for example, the president of the Institute of Modigliani in Rome denies all charges and claims to have documents that prove the authenticity of the portrait.

RAIN TV channel called the director of the Pushkin Museum Irina Antonova, it became clear that she did not see in this story is no international scandal. In the Czech Republic and Japan, this picture was exhibited in this year and no one's reputation is not tarnished, but why should the Pushkin Museum?


Antonov: Yes, these pictures, I'll call you a thousand stories in the world of arts, which were attributed to one author, then another, and denied authorship. So what? I do not see absolutely no crime. This picture show up repeatedly in various exhibitions of her, so to speak, there are different books. So what?

Meanwhile, the publication Artnewspaper, citing a source in circles around the Russian Culture Ministry reported that at the conclusion of the exhibition is a portrait of the present owner bought from the sponsor and donated to the museum. But before the close of the show remained only a week, and as we said Irina Antonova, portrait Marevna not going anywhere. On the contrary, says the director, let it come, comparing and arguing.

Presenters: Alexey Sukhanov