For the first time in Moscow, the Museum of Russian Impressionism will present an exhibition of works by the bright master of the Silver Age, Elena Andreevna Kiseleva (1878 – 1974). From December 17 to March 12 in the halls of the Museum you can see more than 50 works of the artist from private collections and collections of leading state museum institutions.

The Museum of Russian Impressionism continues to acquaint the public with the undeservedly forgotten, fallen from the history of Russian art, remarkable masters. Within the framework of this project, we present an exhibition of the artist Elena Kiseleva, who belongs to that galaxy of Russian women whose names and works adorned the art of the early twentieth century. She occupies a worthy place, among such masters, working in the portrait genre, as Zinaida Serebryakova, Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva. But the name of the artist, one of Ilya Repin’s favorite pupils, was forgotten, and her creative heritage is scattered through private collections.

The main place in Kiseleva’s work belongs to the woman’s portrait. As the artist herself wrote: “The composition or the landscape was of little interest to me. I’ve always been a portraitist and passionately fond of portraying beautiful, interesting women. “” The main thing, I was always fascinated by a woman’s portrait. When I met a beautiful woman, I really wanted to write it. ” She managed to create a whole galaxy of amazing female images. Characteristic for Elena Kiseleva sincere passion for color, pleasure in painting, make the portraits of the artist irresistibly attractive. With her bright canvas, Elena Kiselyova managed to capture the vivid image of her contemporaries, create a true feeling of immersion in the atmosphere of the Silver Age. The viewer looks at the female society of the first two decades of the 20th century not a century later, but as an eyewitness of events.