Museums: “Henry Moore in the Hermitage. Sculpture and drawings” exhibition

May 7, 2011 the State Hermitage Museum and The Henry Moore Foundation with support of London Friends of the Hermitage launched an exhibition called “Henry Moore in the Hermitage. Sculpture and drawings”. The exposition, timed to 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, showcases 78 drawings by the British artist and sculptor Henry Moore and 16 drawings created by Russian architect Alexander S. Nikolsky in the besieged Leningrad.

“Shelter drawings” by the prominent British artist Henry Moore (1898-1986) were made in London between beg. September 1940 and late May 1941, when London was severely bombarded every night by the German aviation.

The exhibition is running within the “Hermitage 20/21” project, a large-scale program aimed at extension of  the collection of 20th and 21st cc. Western art, called to bring works of contemporary artists of the West to the Hermitage.