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Paintings from the museum's collection are presented at an exhibition in Moscow

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On October 21, the Russian Impressionism Museum (Moscow) launched the exhibition special project “Mirages. Saratov School”, continuing the theme of the exhibition “Alexander Savinov. Mirages”. The official partner of the exhibition was the Foundation for the Support of the national award “Civic Initiative”.

The exhibition “Mirages. Saratov School” is dedicated to the artists of the Saratov school of painting, who at the turn of the XIX — XX centuries took a special path and, in contrast to Vrubel’s “demonism”, painted a world of harmony and peace.

The Voronezh Art Museum has provided the work of  Viktor Elpidiforovich Borisov-Musatov”Sitting Woman”, 1899  from its collection.

The exhibition also includes works by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Alexander Karev, Peter Utkin and others.

Exhibition project “Mirages. Saratov School” will last on January 22, 2023.

Photo from the archives of the Museum of Russian Impressionism and the I.N. Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts.

*Viktor Borisov-Musatov is a Russian artist, painter, master of symbolic images of “noble nests”.
The artist was born on April 14, 1870 in Saratov. In 1884, Viktor was sent to the Saratov School. Artists-teachers Vasily Konovalov and Fyodor Vasiliev noted the talent of the young student and advised him to go to Moscow, where he later enrolled. Borisov–Musatov did not like the Moscow school and a year later he transferred to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

In 1894, at the XVII Moscow Student Exhibition, he presented several of his canvases. One of them, “May Flowers”, was bought by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna. In 1895 Borisov-Musatov left for Paris, where he entered the workshop of Fernand Cormon.

“Sitting Woman” is a picture from the cycle of elegiac sadness for the old deserted “noble nests” and the dying “cherry orchards”. For beautiful women dressed in timeless costumes that do not bear the external signs of place and time.

In 1905, Viktor Borisov-Musatov died suddenly. He was buried in Tarusa, on the bank of the Oka.

Video from the archive of the Museum of Russian Impressionism.

V.E. Borisov-Musatov.
A sitting woman. 1899