Pyotr Konchalovsky

[Евгений]

Exhibition: "Konchalovsky. Evolution of Russian avant-garde."
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (02.2010 - 07.2010)
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (09.2010 - 11.2010)

The exhibition will feature the best pictures from the museum's artist-organizers of the event, as well as the best-known works from private collections.
For the first time will be exhibited paintings from the collection of the artist's family and rare archival materials, documents and personal belongings of the artist. All this, according to the organizers, should create a unique atmosphere where not only the picture of Peter Konchalovsky, but also shaped and transformed the whole direction of Russia's painting of the first half of the twentieth century.

Читать дальше... 

Foreign interest in the person of Peter Konchalovsky confirmed, above all, the participation of the artist's works in major international exhibitions of art of Russia in recent years: RUSSIA! (2006, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain), FROM RUSSIA (2008, Royal Academy of Arts, UK), as well as the presence of the artist's works in the permanent collections of several museums in the world.

"Finally, I settled in Paris and started working. I do not know, is it possible somewhere to find such a comfortable environment for work, like this ... while I was only in the Louvre, Luxembourg, and at Durand-Ruel ... But the main thing is not seen -- this gallery Fayer, where, say, an amazing collection of Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh and others ... I am overwhelmed by impressions - everything is so fresh, so extraordinarily serious. act in such a way that I want to work, I want myself as deeply express how these people. .. "

The letter Konchalovsky I. Mashkova from Paris
-------------------------------------------------- ----------------

"My grandfather could well not to return to Russia. In 1924, he had in Paris was very successful exhibition, started selling paintings, he might have to work and earn, and exhibitions. But he came back, went to write there the inhabitants of Novgorod, and then some time traveling, Russia is never left, but always longed for Europe. Why did he come back? "I do not know. Perhaps naively ... Maybe because I felt: to be here. In short, my grandfather was a European who live needed in Russia. "

From the book by Andrei Konchalovsky's "Low Truth
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------

From the site http://pkonchalovsky.com/foundation/...exhibition-ru/