One of the most favorite artists

[Allena]

Text with Regnum: Nina Popova (Director Akhmatova Museum in St. Petersburg) recalled that Akhmatova met Amedeo Modigliani in Paris in 1910, and in 1911 during her second visit to the French capital, the young artist has created a series of drawings inspired by the way Akhmatova. Anna Akhmatova herself in her memoirs mentions sixteen drawings that Modigliani gave her and she brought them to Russia. Exist to this day, only one figure (a photocopy of it is kept on permanent display in the museum, but where is the original, just is not true). The fate of the others brought pictures Akhmatova said that they are at one of its own versions were destroyed in Tsarskoe Selo after the execution of Gumilev and defeat at home, and on the other hand, described her Isaiah Berlin - were killed in the siege.

"I think the drawings Modigliani Akhmatova destroy itself, because for it was very important that the external analog of its appearance, which is consistent with its image in poems and portraits - suggested at a press conference, Nina Popova. - She gave it great importance, is preserved in Funds of the National Library of "striped notebook," which were recorded on Akhmatova's poetry. It is well known, more than 120 portraits of her lifetime. And those nude pictures of the thirties did not fit into the system of images she has betrayed them into oblivion and destroyed. She did not want to these pictures ever seen her reader, is her personal story. And we do not commenting - as it was in reality. This is outside the public debate. I would not cheap and glamorous history. To some extent this is a violation of her will, but in the context of artistic creativity, we should know about it, not to cross, which she found herself.


By the way, there is a version that these drawings the Red Army broke on cigarettes ...