The Museum of Russian Impressionism Celebrates Seekers of Art
14 secret Soviet art collectors and their masterpieces May 11, 2021 Still-life with Guitar, Vladimir Lebedev (1930) from the collection of Iosif Ezrakh Museum of Russian Impressionism
On April 21 the Museum of Russian Impressionism has mounted another exhibition filled with revelations. Called “Seekers of Art,” the show continues the museum’s innovative approach to uncovering the hidden aspects of Soviet life. It tells about a phenomenon that before perestroika was not publicized and in fact was harshly punished: private collections of art, especially painting.
The show displays works from private collections: works by Nikolai Roerich and Konstantin Korovin, Niko Pirosmani and Kazimir Malevich, Robert Falk and Pavel Kuznetsov. But the focus of the show is not the rich art collections on display but the extraordinary collectors. Most of them