Margarita Pushk ina, Founding Director, Cosmoscow: ‘I would definitely recommend the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow - the foremost museum representing Russian art. These are two collections where everyone can understand what Russian artistic genius is.’ Zelfira Tregulova: ‘The Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. ![]() Taking into account the weak market for Russian art, it’s an ideal time to buy key works by contemporary artists and the nonconformist artists of the 1960s.’įor a newcomer to Russian art, which museum or gallery would you recommend visiting, and why? Vrubel, Deineka there are many such examples.’Īnton Belov, Director, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art: ‘Other than Ilya Kabakov, all Russian artists are under-appreciated. Market prices for individual works of Serov do not compensate for the general underestimation of his work. Artists of the first half of the 19th century are consistently undervalued for example, a figure like Alexander Ivanov. The market just snatched a dozen names that sell well from a vast heritage and that it is not always a real measure of the significance of this artist's work in the history of art. This applies to all periods of its development. Zelfira Tregulova, Director General, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow: ‘I think that Russian art is underestimated in general. One exceptional series of this artist is The House with the Mezzanine (1991), which records the full spectrum of Vassiliev’s creative style (Mead Art Museum, Amherst College).’ In the United States, a number of his paintings can be seen in the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. As Bulatov has so eloquently noted, Vassiliev connected the past with the future, uniting realist 19th-century Russian art and the formal avant-garde experiments of the 1920s with the conceptual art that rose to prominence in Moscow during the late 1960s and 1970s. His art is closely linked with that of his better-known friends and fellow artists, Eric Bulatov and Ilya Kabakov. Vassiliev immigrated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union. Although Vassiliev’s works are included in some of the world’s major museum’s collections, his name is still largely unknown in the critical mainstream of today’s global art world. In your opinion, which Russian artist is, or has been, most under-appreciated?Īlla Rosenfeld, Curator of Russian and European Art, The Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, USA: ‘ Oleg Vassiliev (1931-2013) was a central figure of the non-conformist generation of Soviet artists that emerged in the first years after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953. Ahead of our Russian Art sale in London on 5 June, we asked five key Russian art specialists from museums and galleries around the world to tell us about their favourite Russian artists which Russian masters they feel have been overlooked and their must-see locations for viewing Russian art, in Moscow and beyond. In the art world, the centenary is a moment to take stock of the trajectory of Russian art from the turn of the 20th century up to the present day. ![]() In its immediate aftermath, the potential for radical artistic innovation in Russia seemed boundless - but this was not to last. The year 2017 marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution, which ended more than 300 years of Tsarist rule and led to the emergence of the Soviet Union.
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