Russian culture abroad: Works by Russian artists presented at the exhibition “From Tsars to Commissars” in Stockholm

The portrait of Anna Akhmatova by Natan Altman together with canvases of 40 artists of the early XIX – middle XX century from the collection of the State Russian Museum are presented at the National Museum of Stockholm.

The exhibition “From Tsars to Commissars” is opened in the capital of Sweden on October 2. In Stockholm was brought 65 works of art of Russian artists, among which are the works by Ivan Aivazovsky, Isaac Levitan, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Deineki and others. Among the works presented at the exhibition in addition to the famous portrait of Akhmatova, “Peasant with a scythe and rake (Pelageya)” (1824) by Alexei Venetsianov, “Suprematism (Supremus № 56) by Kazimir Malevich, “Girl in a T-shirt” (1932) by Alexander Samokhvalov and other famous works.

“The exposition is designed to significantly expand the representation of Swedish audience about Russian painting.  They will be able to see masterpieces of maters, who worked before and after the era of the wanderers. The subjects of their works are varied: from portraits of serfs to image of workers and farmers, from lyrical landscapes to paintings of communist buildings”, - said in the press-service of the State Russian Museum.