Vladimir Makovsky. Dialogues Automatic translate

Collector Club together with the Artefact Gallery Center presents the exhibition "VLADIMIR MAKOVSKY. Dialogues". The exposition includes more than 40 paintings and graphic works from private collections. These are genuine masterpieces of Russian genre painting, created by the great Russian artist, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky. Many paintings will be available for public viewing for the first time.

A real sensation will be the opportunity to see together for the first time in 130 years the paired paintings “In the Tavern” and “In the Eater” after their triumph at the 15th Traveling Exhibition in 1887. Many paintings will meet for the first time after our compatriots saw them at exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg at the end of the 19th century.

In 1873, Makovsky was promoted to academician by the Academy of Arts for his painting “Nightingale Lovers”. The painting was exhibited at the World Exhibition in Vienna, where it attracted everyone’s attention. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote about it: “…if we have something to be proud of, something to show, then, of course, it is from our genre… in these little pictures, in my opinion, there is even love for humanity, not only for Russians in particular, but even in general.” Visitors to the exhibition will be shown the original version of this work from 1872.

Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky entered the artistic field when Russian genre painting had already gone through a significant path of its development, when its own traditions had been formed, associated primarily with such major names as Pavel Fedotov and Vasily Perov. The work of each of the named artists marks an entire stage in the history of Russian art, conditioned by the peculiarities of the development of social life in Russia in the 40s and 60s of the 19th century.

Makovsky showed himself as a mature master in the next period – in the 70-80s, when new tasks arose for Russian painting. Artists gradually moved away from sharp social satire, from straightforward denunciation of reality. They faced the need to look closely at the people around them, their interests, delve into their psychology, understand and feel what the ordinary man lives and breathes. Makovsky expanded the range of observations of his predecessors. The objects of his work were not only the life of the peasantry, the everyday life of the intelligentsia, the revolutionary liberation struggle in Russia, but still the urban scenes of his native Moscow attracted the artist above all.

Makovsky’s paintings widely depict city life and its characteristic types. Visitors to the exhibition will see officials, nobles, city workers, representatives of different classes and statuses, from dignitaries, businessmen and merchants of the new era to regulars of flea markets and taverns. Depicting city life, Makovsky took it in the everyday life of the street, showing the everyday life of a small man with his entourage, their meetings and dialogues. He knew how to place his characters in their typical everyday environment and did it with great skill. The artist’s talent was especially vividly demonstrated in the so-called "small genres". In them, Makovsky needed only one or two figures to give a vivid idea of ​​the era, the character of the characters, their social status.

Visitors will be able to get to know the heroes of Makovsky’s paintings, be happy for them, smile at the good humor with which the artist depicted his contemporaries, and listen to dialogues of city scenes during excursions around the exhibition.

The Collector Club considers it especially significant and important to demonstrate the history of the development of Russian genre painting through the prism of the pictorial series of works by Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky from private collections. And also to expand knowledge about the artist’s work, thanks to which the images of our compatriots of the past time retain for us the charm of their vital immediacy.

With the project "VLADIMIR MAKOVSKY. Dialogues. Masterpieces from private collections" the Collector Club continues its active exhibition and educational activities, designed for a wide range of viewers.

The Collector Club has been represented on the professional art market since 1998. It takes part in leading antique events in Moscow and continuously carries out research and art history activities. It closely cooperates with recognized experts and collectors of works of art of the 19th – 20th centuries. It professionally searches for new authentic and highly artistic works of painting and graphics of the 19th – 20th centuries, carries out their attribution, cataloguing, exposition and introduction into art history circulation.