Rare work Konchalovsky. Still Life "Four bouquet on the table and Lake"

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In 2009, L. Shishkin Gallery participated in the first exhibition of Russian Art, held in London in the hotel Jumeirah Carlton Tower. Gallery was brought to a single work, which, however, proved to be the most attractive exhibit throughout the exhibition.

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in the famous monograph ML Neumann Peter Konchalovsky. Creative career of one of the greatest artists of our time ", Moscow, Soviet Artist, 1967, which published this work is provided this statement Konchalovsky: « Flowers - great masters of the artist: In order to comprehend and to dismantle the structure of roses, we must put no less effort than in the study of the human face. In the color is all that exists in nature, only in more subtle and complex forms. I write the flowers, as a musician playing scales. This great exercise for each artist ».
Still Life "Four bouquet on the table and Lake" is striking in its magnitude. As in many other works of large size, ranging from the early "family portraits" by the Spanish period and ending with "apple orchards" of the latter years of his life, still life in this boisterous symphony of colors is maintained and enhanced forms of monumentality. Konchalovsky - a man of broad mind, and the big swinger - knew and loved to write big picture, expressing their powerful sound of life itself.
The artist considered this work a great success. She first exhibited at the legendary exhibition "Industry of Socialism" (Moscow-Leningrad, 1939), then in all his lifetime personal exhibitions of the artist: at the 10 th in 1941 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, at 14 th in Moscow in 1947, and at the exhibition to the 75 anniversary of the artist in Moscow in 1951.
In 2005, the painting exhibited at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis (USA), along with masterpieces from the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Pyotr Konchalovsky has always been a landmark figure in Russian culture, from early works Knave of Diamonds and ending with the late classical still life and landscapes. Thanks to record sales of his works on Russian auctions (Sotheby's and Christie's) of the last decade, the artist's name and received international acclaim.

1.Konchalovsky PP (1876 - 1956) Four bouquet on the table and watering
(1939). Canvas /maslo.165.0 x 229.0 cm
2.Na stand Leonid Shishkin Gallery.