Museums: Works by Boris Grigoryev go on show at Russian Museum

The State Russian Museum, Benois Wing, (St. Petersburg) has unveiled an exhibition of works by Boris Grigoryev.

The one-man show of Boris Grigoryev (1886-1939), who was one of the most renowned Russian artists of the first half of the 20th century, includes more than 150 paintings and graphic works from museums and private collections of Russia and foreign countries. For the first time in Russia the exhibition presents such a complete and diverse collection of works by Boris Grigoryev, who emigrated in 1919 and later worked in the Western Europe, Latin America countries and the United States.

Boris Grigoryev won the international fame for his paintings and graphic portraits of famous personalities of Russian culture (including Gorky, Shalyapin, Meyerhold, Rahmaninov), marked by the shrewdness and depth of delineation. A special section of the exhibition presents works from the “Raseya” series, created in the revolutionary years, which reveal the artist's complicated reflections on the fate of the Russian world. The exhibition also showcases unique drawings, created between 1910's and 20's.

The exposition is supplemented with the multimedia film devoted to the basic works by Boris Grigoryev.