It is amazing because it had all been ordered to line up, any free-thinking eradicated, it was clear that the proletarian homeland is all totally unnecessary. Right above Cyril wrote: It was destroyed so much, not only works, but their creators. It is amazing that in such circumstances, people in general continues to create. Generally speaking, I do not recall another such case: that the artist did not sell nothing for the sake of some mythical descendants.

"By working exclusively as a researcher, I do not sell their work, whatever it may cost me, and the bank, wanting to give all of his work of the Party and the Soviet Union and make them his own museum, because these things are an exceptional phenomenon in the world of art "from the diary Filonov, 1932.

"My things are the most interesting moment in the whole world of art ..." ibid, nov. 1932. (reply F. Grabar)

Filonov wanted to make a museum of art analysis of his paintings and paintings of his students (in the statute were MAI items on the ban on the sale of paintings team members). In this museum, he wanted to convey to all of his "revolution in art, he discovered new ways of creative thinking.

After the death of Filonova in 1941. his work (over 400) kept his sister EN Glebova, until 1977. When she gave her brother at the will of all the assembly of the Russian Museum "without the right to transfer or sale."

Interesting fact from the diary of the artist:

Diary. 1934
July 13. Took from the Russian [museum] 15 of his works that were in Moscow at the exhibition "15 years of Soviet art. One of these works, "The man in the world", I returned in the following way: the picture (it was written in oil on a whole sheet of paper Alexandrian) was torn in two, and one half to two. Instead I got the whole picture, therefore, three separate pieces.
Considering the persecution of my art, when the beaters increasingly nagleyut feeling of impunity for any meanness towards me, of course, is useless anywhere to complain or to make any protest in this case.
The guard of the Russian Museum - Hercules Novomlinsky, getting things in Moscow, handing them to me and said that someone from the administration of the exhibition - a woman - her name he did not name, told him when depositing things in Moscow: "The thing is broken by accident. We can restore it. For damage Filonov, if they wish, may receive a monetary reward.
Tear the thing in half and again in half - reactionary bastard calls the "unexpectedness".

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read his memoir is very difficult ... there is too much attention paid to "reactionary assholes"

For admirers of Paul Filonov, very interesting article about the artist,
his disciples and followers in the magazine "Antiques, art
and collectible "№ 3 2002g.Pozhaluy the best experience of creativity Filonov, tell our contemporary published
today.

Pavel Filonov
Painting
Graphics
From the Collection of the State Russian Museum
Exhibition Catalog
Publishing Aurora Leningrad 1988

If interested, even early Filonov

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Look at these pictures made the 20 th May and 18 th
December 1905. In the first photo, P. Filonov stands in the center with a mustache, for L. Dmitriev-Caucasian, and the second
at the top. Notice how bright, inspired and sosredatochennoe face.

Samvel, please note it - always in the center, a direct look into the lens, in the eyes of the full realization of its "features" of its greatness, its future place in history.

Exactly! Among students, he was the one who wrote vividly in his original manner, and L. Au .- Caucasian, not only admired and supported him, but kept in the collection of 22 Oil-works, which are now virtually the only surviving early work P. Filonov.