Yesterday Ildar Galeev Gallery in Greater Kozikhinsky 19/6 exhibition of Robert Falk - graphics and paintings from museums and private collections.
Falk's biography (1886 - 1958) can be placed milestones of Russian art of the twentieth century. He started in the studios Yuon and Mashkov. In the 1910's - one of the founders of the "Jack of Diamonds" and member of the "World of Art". In 1920 - the teacher Art Workshops. In 1930 - "Russian Parisian." In the 1940 - unreliable "formalist." And after the war - one of the legendary "three F" (Falk, Fonvizin Tabor) - authority for the emerging generation of young nonconformists, quiet ideologue postwar non-art.
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The uniqueness of the exhibition is that many of the Moscow audience will see for the first time. Thus, some of the items could be raised from private collections, including the drums paintings. A number of them had not previously exhibited publicly. In addition, for the show managed to bring the schedule of regional museums, including items from the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan), where they were handed widow Falk. Exhibition can be considered partly anniversary - last year it was 125 years since the birth of the artist.
Robert Falk died in October 1958. Painstaking work on his artistic legacy for many years led Angelina Shchekin-Krotov - the last wife of the artist. Many things have been arranged in a museum in the 1960s and 1970s, carried out important exhibition. In 2006 he was issued a complete catalog of paintings by the artist (composer Julia Didenko, published with the assistance of the gallery "Elysium"), with biographical text Shchekin-Krotova and monographic part Dmitry Sarabianov. Catalog-reason for Russian artists can be counted on one hand, it is very rare - and at Falk he actually is. The exhibition in the "Galeev Gallery" was another important step - graphics Falk published a catalog that includes the work of the regional museums and private collections. Drafters emphasized that this time it is not a reasonable, it is not a complete collection of graphics, but one of the most representative. The fact that the work of Falk is well studied and it is recognized experts, but still reasonable, significantly increases the security of buying these products for beginning collectors. Of course, at a certain vigilance, because the fake in the market are not uncommon.
The most expensive things in the world of the artist long auction broke the mark of one million dollars and a million pounds. Today in dollar terms the most expensive painting Falk remains almost meter-long canvas "Trees." In 2008 it was sold at Sotheby's for £ 937,000 - 1.85 million. But this, of course, an exceptional case. In the present situation for painting it often comes to Estimate 200-400 thousand dollars. After a significant correction during the 2008-2009 crisis. price index of creativity Falk Artist's ARTIMX resumed strong growth.
The exhibition is made with love. And as often happens in the opening days at Galeev - Apple does not have a place to fall. This explains the fragmentary picture photo essay. For the minimum experience - enough, but Falk, especially its textured painting, you have to watch live.
