The exhibition on Diaghilev would become the main project in 2009 in the Tretyakov Gallery

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Exhibition dedicated to the centenary of Sergei Diaghilev and organized them in Paris Ballet "Russian Seasons" will open at the Tretyakov Gallery in autumn 2009, gave an interview to RIA Novosti Deputy Director of the museum Lydia Iovleva.
According to her, this - the most important and anticipated project next year, which brings together museums of America, France, England and Russia.
Ballet "Russian Seasons" - entreprise Serge Diaghilev, which began in 1909, enjoyed tremendous success in Europe, especially France and Britain, creating a rage for all things Russian. Thanks to his productions on the stage of world ballet dancers emerged, such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Leonid Massine, Fokine, Serge Lifar, George Balanchine.

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over the sets and costumes Diaghilev's productions of his colleagues worked on the "World of Art" Leon Bakst and Alexander Benois. Later Diaghilev with his passion for innovation has attracted as decorators best artists in Europe - Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain, Coco Chanel, Henri Matisse and many others - and the Russian avant-garde - Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner.

According Iovleva, the exhibition will showcase the work of Bakst, Benois, Goncharova, Larionov, Roerich, de Chirico and Picasso's sketches of scenery and costumes for ballets, as well as the costumes themselves.

Organizers promise that the sensation of the exhibition will be preserved curtain for the ballet "Parade", executed by a sketch by Picasso.

"He is - huge, so it is rarely seen, and Europe. Recently, a representative of Museum Victoria and Albert, where it is stored in deciding how we should show it - a life-size, or are still going to tuck," - said Iovleva.

She also stressed that "we search out all that is in Russia, mainly in St. Petersburg. From Stockholm Theater Museum agreed to give a few costumes for the ballet" clown ", which we have no" - added the Deputy Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

List of products, as agreed with partners, is ready.

Above all, as Iovleva said that the plans did not violate the unstable economic situation. "The general world situation I was very scared, but so far no one has signaled that he refused to participate," - she said. Summer exhibition will be on display in Monaco, and in the fall will be in Moscow.

In addition, the Tretyakov Gallery, you will see the works of Russian artists who emigrated in the early twentieth century in America.

"The exhibition will be presented to one hundred works by artists such as Feshin, Grigoriev, Anesfeld, Tchelitchew, Rothko," - told Iovleva.

This project initiated by the U.S. side is carried out jointly with the Russian Museum. At the present time, the exhibition demonstrated in America, then move to St. Petersburg to Moscow, and gets to June.

Within the project "Golden Map of Russia", for which the team received the State Prize of the museum, next year will be on display exhibitions from the museum The New Jerusalem and the Kirov Museum.