Russian Winter for Delhi art lovers

 |  New Delhi,  March 11, 2010
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Anyone with a passing knowledge of Anton Chekhov’s short stories would love an art show titled Russian Winter. If you’re familiar with Russian literature of the Dead Souls ( Nikolai Gogol) variety, it would be criminal to miss the exhibition mounted at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture to coincide with Vladimir Putin’s official visit to India on Friday.

Russian Winter will feature paintings dating back to the 18th and 19th centuries that have been taken on loan from the Russian Museum in St Petersburg. These painting are leaving Russian soil for the first time in their history. The exhibition will also mark the 45th anniversary of the Russian Centre in the Capital.

The exhibition brings together brilliantly hued oils-on-canvas by Russian masters, including Boris Kustodiev, Mstislav Dobuzhinskiy, Petr Gruzinskiy and Konstantin Makovskiy.

The exhibition is being curated by Evgenia Petrova, deputy director of the Russian Museum, who was present at a media briefing here on Wednesday.

Interestingly, the work of Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter and author of the historic art conservation treaty that is named after him, has been left out of the exhibition. Petrova said the Russian Museum did not wish to bring Roerich’s paintings to the exhibition because Indian audiences would already be familiar with them.

Joseph Kiblitskiy, director of publishing programmes of the Russian Museum, spoke about the long process of bringing the paintings to India. “The paintings have to be kept in a temperature-controlled environment,” he said, pointing out to the dehumidifiers in the room at the Russian Centre.

Russian Winter is on display at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture, 24, Ferozeshah Road, from 10 am to 6 pm daily till April 4.

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