The staff made a sensational discovery of the Tretyakov Gallery
 

Employees of the Tretyakov Gallery have found the missing picture of Nikolai Ge. Cloth "Mercy," written in the late 19th century, it was shown publicly only once - in a traveling exhibition. After that, the picture disappeared. With the help of modern technology museum conservators have found the missing painting by another textbook picture of Nikolai Ge.

Scientific discovery recently made by members of the Tretyakov Gallery, can be called sensational. Preparing for a major exhibition of paintings of Nicolas Gay, museum workers have decided to test some hypotheses. The focus was textbook famous painting Ge "What is truth?", Which depicts Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate.

In his memoirs Tatyana Tolstoy, whose father was friends with the artist, they say, if Gay painted on top of another, called "Mercy." One of the art magazines 20s even published a photograph, but the fate of the paintings and remained unknown.

"Mercy" was written in 1879, was exhibited at the 8th traveling exhibition in 1880. Provoked sharp criticism, even though the work expected, because it appeared after the break, "- says Tatiana Karpova, curator of the exhibition.

As every antique painting, canvas, "What is truth?" Covered with fine cracks, craquelure. These breaks in the paint looked a binocular microscope and noticed that a brown-beige colorful layer is greenish. Radiographs of the three fragments of pictures showed that the composition has a different picture.

"It was a decision the whole picture roentgenographed that was done. 35 X-rays from the surface of the picture in 1933 - not an easy job ", - said Lydia Gladkova, head of the department of scientific expertise of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Pictures combined. In black and white guess Christ, followed by a girl in a white dress. Museum workers have compared the scene with the only surviving photograph of the painting "Mercy." The hypothesis was confirmed.

The fact that Nikolai Ge wrote his masterpiece on top of another picture, there are reasons of an economic nature: Fe has never worked on the job and lived modestly.

This is an interesting confirmation. Pavel Tretyakov bought from the artists work in the author frames. Do they differ Gay - simple, made of oak. Not characteristic of the 19th century.

Ge was incredibly demanding on yourself. He made hundreds of sketches for paintings. Ruthlessly destroyed by those who considered unsuccessful.

Nikolai Ge The exhibition, which opens in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery will exhibit paintings and some radiographs. After Gay "painted" some of his canvases.

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Well done, my good PR vysavku Ge, which is opening soon :

Yes, very competently.
First of all the media razzvonili about "a unique collection of graphics," which he presented, for instance, here.

Now here's the find of this.
And to shoot, as was recently the painting by Goya, for some reason can not

And there is also an exhibition called :

Discoveries of this kind always attract curiosity , akin to the pleasure of spying and reading other people's letters . Very human and familiar to many senses. + It is still strange to look into the mobile phone and read SMS. :D>
But the question is , if the artist is something closed , hence would not show . Should we remove this "for the ear but in the sun ." The author himself , of course, will not sue . And if the author is still alive? That may well appeal . I think that the issue of a series of philosophical .
Of course I am also curious ( nothing human is ), but some discomfort is still there. (Yet shame peep , even though very interesting). :shy:>

zarajara, some of the heritage , the great , the artists at some point cease to be "something personal" and begins to belong to , sorry for the pathos, the " world art ": art fans every important job, even shaded , regardless of why it was such - on poverty , a lack of canvas or for some political reasons , as apparently happened with the recently uncovered a portrait of Goya.

Oh , darling zarajara, ( Zara! )
I tune with your feelings. Much of our world was, is and will be such that for some has been, is and will be uncomfortable .. (indeed, a philosophical question , but On the other hand , " it was necessary to hide better!" _chtob children do not provoke ...) and remembered the Mikelandzheno Vasari ..
Mikelandzhnelo destroyed because "all their sweat "; Vasari , because preserved fresco of Leonardo, secretly lifted parallel to the wall ..

Painting "The Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge discovered by accident
 

picture of the "Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge discovered accidentally

In the storerooms of the Novocherkassk Museum accidentally found a picture of Nikolai Ge "Crucifixion". She was more than a hundred years. Now working with the canvas art the Tretyakov Gallery.

Incredibly, Novocherkassk, a unique collection of works of art, has never been and today there is an art museum. And because even the experts do not know about stored in the treasure. It happened with the painting "The Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge, for which the Don landed researchers from the Tretyakov Gallery.

"So far in the literature, and even in everyday life, this picture does not appear as a genuine work of Nicholas Gay. And since we are working on the exhibition, which takes place in Moscow, we have a fairly large amount of material that gives us the opportunity as a result of studies to confirm the name of the Ge , "- said Lydia Gladkov, head of the department of scientific expertise of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

On this picture, the Tretyakov learned by chance, found in the archive of the artist Chernyshev letter director of the Museum of history of the Don Cossacks of 1961, which states that the museum from 20s kept painting "The Crucifixion" by Nikolai Ge. The letter was accompanied by a small black and white photography. Art critic Tatiana Karpova contacted Novocherkassk colleagues, asking for details of macro picture, signature, and the back of the canvas frame, suggesting that perhaps, it was found that same picture, of which the artist wrote to Leo Tolstoy.

"It was in 1884, he began work on the Passion and wrote to Tolstoy that the thought of two paintings. One -" Crucifixion "and the other on the eve of the coming suffering. This is probably a first version of the picture" Golgotha ​​", which is in the Tretyakov Gallery. We picked up a number of analogs, including signature look.'s signature ekspertiruemoy our painting "Crucifixion", and this - with a picture of "Peter interrogates Tsarevich Alexei." How do they look like! " - Said Tatiana Karpova, curator of the exhibition "What is truth? Nikolai Ge. By the 180th anniversary of the birth of" the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The work of researchers will continue in Moscow. Radiography is still the canvas. A parallel Novocherkassk Museum historians conduct their search. Because of how the picture got there, survived for more than a century and the revolution and war, and preserved with its own frame, in a museum not yet known.

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