The widow Eliya Belyutina presented to the Kaliningrad Art Gallery a collection of the artist’s work

KALININGRAD. An event took place within the walls of the Kaliningrad Art Gallery, thanks to which its fund was significantly replenished. The gallery received a collection of paintings owned by Eli Belyutin, a famous Russian master of abstract painting.

This collection contains over a hundred paintings, an album of drawings created by Eli Belyutin during the war years, documents from the artist’s archive and his personal belongings. The gallery also received a library owned by the artist, antique furniture that adorned his workshop located at the Patriarch’s Ponds.

All this wealth was transferred to the Kaliningrad Art Gallery by the widow of the artist, Nina Mikhailovna Molina. Nina Mikhailovna is already 91 years old. About 25 years old, Eli Mikhailovich with his wife, an art historian by profession, presented the works of the Kaliningrad gallery created by the artist.

After the death of the artist (Eli Belyutin passed away in 2012), his widow continued to collaborate with the Kaliningrad art gallery, transferring her husband’s work to her fund. Nina Mikhailovna explained this collaboration with her special attitude to Kaliningrad and the city art gallery.

The gallery was the first among regional museums to show the public the work of Eliya Belyutin after many years of its ban. Nina Molina, deciding to preserve her husband’s legacy in a single museum space, made the gallery such a generous gift, transferring even family values belonging to the artist’s family to her gallery.

The plans of the gallery, after moving to a new building, the creation of a permanent exhibition of the avant-garde. It will show not only the best works of Eliya Belyutin, but also recreate the atmosphere of his workshop from things belonging to the master.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru