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Сообщение от Konstantin
- Passion cycle.
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Crucifix" (permanent exposition of the Museum d'Orsay, Paris).
End Master painting, completed after many previous cases in 1894,
was his favorite work, to which he devoted ten years of creativity.
He rewrote it 19 times.
A long time he could not even find a line in the Gospel, which could be thought of painting.
First, God was alone, the robbers were not.
Then they both began to blaspheme Christ.
But once in the village next to the Pliska brother killed his brother.
"I ran, - says Nikolay.
- The murderer was in the house. Stood in the corner. For some reason, completely naked, stretched out,
He trampled on the ground and kept his feet in a strange way - with his heels apart.
However, he sobbed and repeated the same word: "Vodice, a little water ...."
In this ugly man woke up the conscience.
He remembered me and useful for my Rogue. "
Then what went on swearing, Nikolai cut. Together with the
strip of canvas. In order not to interfere.
And when in 1894
Gay brought the "Crucifixion" at the 22nd traveling exhibition, censorship forbade her to exhibit.
But Nicholas knew the apartment, where the work first began to attend to the notes of the author,
and in the future without these notes painters, doctors, government officials, critics, students ...
Thus, despite the censorship, the picture I saw almost all of St. Petersburg.
Leo Tolstoy, arrived in Moscow to see displayed at the private studio picture of his friend,
long regarded it, and then embraced
Gay.
Two
old man tears as children ...
"The first time they saw that
crucifixion - penalty, and a terrible punishment," - said Tolstoy.
Only in the fall of 1903 have already been put to his son Kye "Crucifixion" on display in Geneva, where the picture was a huge success.
1.Crucifix, the Museum d'Orsay, Paris.
2. Christ and the thief, KNMRI, Kiev.
3. The head of the crucified Christ, KNMRI, Kiev.