Matisse, Gauguin, van Gogh and Monet return to the main exposition of the Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin Museum opens an updated exposition of the Art Gallery of Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries, which was inaccessible to visitors for more than six months. Viewers will be able to see the masterpieces of the impressionists and post-impressionists from the collection of Sergei Schukin and Ivan Morozov, as well as other works of painting, sculpture and ceramics from the museum’s collection in a new reading. The permanent exhibition of the Gallery will be a continuation of the story about Moscow collecting, which began at the exhibition Schukin. Biography of the collection. "

Since May 14, 2019, the permanent exhibition of the Art Gallery of Europe and America of the XIX – XX centuries was unavailable due to the large-scale projects of the summer season. All three floors of the Gallery’s building were occupied by the exhibition “Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection. Favorites ”, where one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary art was presented. Works from the collection of Sergei Schukin at that time were shown at the exhibition “Schukin. Biography of the collection ”, and part of the collection of Ivan Morozov - in the State Hermitage Museum at the exhibition“ The Morozov Brothers. Great Russian collectors. " After more than six months, the Moscow meeting is reopening to the public.

In the updated exposition of the Gallery, famous works will be united in a new way, which will give the viewer the opportunity not only to see the best works from the museum’s collection, but also to reflect on the connections between them. Along with monographic halls, where the work of a particular artist is represented, there will be thematic ones dedicated to individual genres or motives. For example, visitors will learn how the landscape developed from the Barbizon school to Paul Cezanne, see how different authors portrayed Paris. The curators of the exposition also put emphasis in a slightly different way. The works of the masters, who were previously not given so much attention, will be able to sound in a new way. The works of the Impressionists will be presented more widely, as well as the principle of showing the collection of sculpture, including the works of Auguste Rodin, will be changed.

Important for the exhibition is the theme of collecting. The solutions that were used at the exhibition “Schukin. Biography of the collection ”, continue in the gallery halls. For example, a composition from the works of Gauguin is now made in such a way that resembles the weight in the famous dining room in the house of Sergei Schukin; it is adjacent to the collection of Matisse’s works - a memory of the Pink Living Room. Curators also begin to reflect on the future exhibition dedicated to Ivan Morozov, which will be held at the Pushkin Museum in 2021: paintings from his collection form an independent thematic block. Thus, the internal logic of the exposition is connected not only with the history of art, but also with the development of Moscow collectibles.