Alexander Drevin
 

One of my favorite artists. Passing through passion primitivism and bespredmetnichestvom, found his unique, immediately recognizable style, which did not leave until his tragic death. By the way, read it, but have not seen the original, that in the sentence, along with charges of counterrevolutionary activity was recorded and for "formalism in art."
He, of course, one must look alive, the picture that the screen that the book can not pass and the proportion of the expressivity, which is present in his works.

+100!

I also love Drevin. Moreover, it seems to me that the artist rather strangely undervalued, I am sure that the investment plan it will play in the coming years.
In the meantime, get aesthetic pleasure from such parachutes here :D

It is known that the arrest Hope Udaltsova Drevin pictures saved from confiscation by giving them their own. They were first exhibited in Moscow in 1971

After an optimistic autobiography, I want to quote from the book of Catherine Drevin Hope Udaltsova M., 1997, in which the published diaries of Hope Udaltsova:

In the night of 16 to 17 January 1938, was arrested Alexander Drevin. He left without even putting on his leather coat, which was so still remained in the apartment, said Udaltsova: "Do not worry, I'll be back" - and vanished forever.
Diary N. Udaltsova January 18, 1938:
"What happened, what happened? Two days in a fog. Where to go, someone shouting? Tend innocent man. Save the man who never had nothing to do with any Western people as they arrived, nor with Latvians: Jakub only one, and then, when arrests among the lat. artists. Said that there is nothing to worry Drevin, never with anyone else was involved. And old parents, too, is nothing. What do I do what I do? I have one in the whole world, and no money, and where, to whom shall I go? All have turned away from me. Yesterday found the strength to go to Yakubu. He was shocked. He said not to tell anyone. And, perhaps, this fellow (who conducted the search and seizure) is not telling the truth for comfort. When nothing was found, and the protocol was drawn up, that's nothing, we sighed with relief, and suddenly: "You will have to go with me for a long time you do not delay." And I - with care:
- Do not worry, nothing is found, through two or three days he will return, do not worry.
- No, - I said - he was a Soviet man, threw home, parents, and now!
- Do not you think that this may be due to other, - said the assistant, and neither the left.
And now, I wrote a letter to Yezhov, and I was calm and clear: Drevin not guilty of anything, and an innocent person may be convicted "*

* The above-mentioned letter to Yezhov - one of a countless number of pardon, which Udaltsova writing until 1956 Hope Udaltsova not gone to the evacuation, she believed that Alexander Drevin, shot on Feb. 26, 1938, was alive.

http://artinvestment.ru/news/exhibit...ondratiev.html
This exhibition was most recently, and somewhere came across a message on the large-scale exhibition in Yaroslavl. Now look for. It seems there was also Kondratiev.

Found it!
http://artinvestment.ru/news/exhibit...jaroslawl.html

In the directory "Alexander Drevin in museum collections" are excerpts from the interrogation Drevin.
For example:

V. - What is your expressed hostility to the Soviet system?
Q - My hostility to Soviet power was expressed in the fact that I
supported the formalist position in the art and counteracted
socialist realism.
And when it was instructed: follow the path of socialist realism,
I considered myself in the position of the offended the Soviet authorities, which does not
work freely and oppresses creativity of the artist.
And only since 1932, I gradually, with great difficulty in correcting
a formalist tendencies.
Q - Tell me what specific work you as an artist with written
counterrevolutionary distortions?
O. - I wrote a series of paintings that are counter-revolutionary
distortion, is: "Jumpers", "Roe", "Unemployed", "Girl" and
"The collective farm landscape.
VA - The essence of counter-revolutionary distortion of your paintings?
A. - That is, for example, painting "Girl on the farm" rather than to portray a fun, prosperous, joyful collective farm life, I drew a heavy, sad, sad reality of the collective farms, displaying it in the movie "Kolkhoznaya girl."
VA - The investigation has evidence that you went to the collective and
carried out the work of nationalist order.
A. - I do not deny it. I talked to the collective farmers about the life of Latvians in
Soviet Union. Remembered how the people live in Latvia. About Latvia I
said, as his homeland.
Q - So, you spent a nationalist agitation?
A. - Yes. I spent the nationalist agitation in the collective farms.

COP! I, unfortunately, did not see this directory. And in whose publication are those passages?
Strangely enough, but the archives represssirvannyh so far show only to relatives and often incomplete (some pages are questioning blind white sheet)

Tomorrow climbing out of the house-just tell.

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Originally published Tatiana Zelyukinoy in 2003 from the KGB archives of Moscow and Moscow region in the publication of "Alexander Drevin. In museum collections" - the publication of the Tretyakov Gallery and publishers RA.

Indeed - surprisingly similar to the Steel 1949-50 gg. And pointless. And then, since 1951, when it was moved to objectivity, his painting lost pastoznost, the palette became brighter, in general, has changed, and the similarity was much lower.

It means that Gryshchenko stylistic characteristics inherent in 1949-50 he also became., Combined with stories that have appeared in steel after 1951, incredibly, is not it?

Qwerty,
Interestingly, it turns out that T. Zelyukina - expert Drevin?
Painfully difficult to get to the archives now the FSB, even with the noblest of art intentions.
And I, on the contrary, the impression that the attitude of the forum to tap expertise Zelyukinoy wary.