Another strange paragraph:
<<With all the fantastic ingenuity and virtuosity of the work of the great Russian avant-garde Filonova auction value of his works is not close to the paintings of Malevich. According to one art critic for The Washington Post, here affected by the fact that Filonov was a little more understandable to the Soviet arts bureaucracy, making it more likely to buy in domestic museums, and, consequently, fewer were exported to the West. Kazimir Malevich in the Soviet Union feared less, why he had not died in storerooms, and became available for the world. Almost half a century hung Suprematist works by Kazimir Malevich in the walls of the famous Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Museum "Stedeliyk in Amsterdam before they reached the current price exorbitant figures.>>
Is not it somehow strange to read about the work Filonova that they are "fantastically inventive" and "masterly". I would certainly not able to use these epithets, referring to the work of one of the most enigmatic of representatives of Russian art. So we can speak of salon painters, but of Filonova as a language does not rotate!
Art critic for The Washington Post, "reflects on Filonova!? This is something! American journalist, apparently, could not find any other explanation of the fact that these works Filonova virtually no market? He did not know that Paul Filonov rarely sold (for peanuts) their work, despite the need. And even if we knew it might not have believed it and could not understand how not understand his fellow countryman, Baskervil gallerist, who believed Filonova "the greatest artist in the world" and urged him to sell that be a lot of money. Filonov not agree even on foreign exhibitions, believing that his work must first see at home.
The reason, of course, not only in these "oddities" Pavel Filonov, but also in the specifics of his creative method. The fact is that many of his works, he finished over two decades, believing that something else is not completed yet.
Filonov not sell their works abroad, but at home his work was not appreciated. A well-known fact that his pictures almost did not include in the exhibition until 1988-year.
Almost all of Filonov, in the end, proved in the funds G.R.M. due to the fact that they gave there EN Glebova - sister of the artist. So favor Soviet officials no more than an invention of the American journalist and the result of ignorance of Russia's hack writers.
P.S. By the way, I can not for the sake of justice once again not to say that the American gallerists Filonova discerned during his lifetime.
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