Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty

A hundred and forty-odd works by Viktor Borisov-Musatov, brought together out of twenty collections. The Pool and The Emerald Necklace hang side by side; beside them the studies that are ordinarily kept in the reserves, and by these one sees how many attempts the painter made before he arrived at the picture. Singly he is shown often enough. Together, almost never. The Kadashevskaya building holds no collection of its own; in November what has been gathered will go back to its museums.

A hundred artists, designers and makers from across Russia, chosen by the project’s curator. This year’s theme is the image of the future held by those who work with the inheritance of their forebears. In the exhibition complex on Revolution Square.

Work by the sculptor who carved quebracho and algarrobo: in his hands wood holds shapes impossible in marble.

Tretyakov bought icons in the nineties, a few years before his death. Of this part of his collecting least is known. Sixty-odd panels of the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, many of them shown for the first time: the Novgorod «Predsta Tsaritsa» of the fifteenth century, the Igorevskaya Virgin of Tenderness from the beginning of the sixteenth, work of the tsars’ and the Stroganov masters, got together with the help of dealers and of men who knew old things. Apart from these it is told how the icons came into the rooms of the Gallery and how they travelled Europe in 1929–1932; second floor of the Engineering Building.

Over seven hundred objects: sculpture and painting of Russian Buddhism, almost none of it shown before. More than a hundred sculptures were conserved for the opening.