History and Culture: The exhibition "Alexander Benois recalls…" in Pavlovsk

The exhibition "Alexander Benois recalls…" was opened in the Kavalergardskaya of the Pavlovsk Palace (the Leningrad region) at the exhibition watercolors from the collection of the artist's family (France) and the collection of the GMP "Pavlovsk" are presented.

Alexander Benois (1870-1960) - a vivid representative of the art of the Silver Age, a man versatile gifted: a painter and graphic artist, set designer and art historian, art critic and memoirist.

The creative heritage of Benoit is extensive and diverse, his works are represented in the collections of the largest museums of our country - the Hermitage, the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery and private collections.

At the exhibition "Alexander Benois recalls…", unfolded in the Pavlovsk Palace-Museum, there are twenty watercolors - picturesque memories of the suburbs of St. Petersburg and, first and foremost, of Pavlovsk. In Pavlovsk he lived a five-year-old boy, while his father, architect Nikolai Leontyevich Benois, built a wooden theater near the Music Station. The young man returned here in the period of "novelistic" experiences. A recognized art historian was here in the 1920s during the creation of the museum in the Pavlovsk Palace.

Most of the watercolors were stored in the family archive of Benois in the album, donated by the artist to his wife - Anna Karlovna Benois in 1943. Some of the drawings were executed by the artist from nature in post-revolutionary years, some during the years of emigration, in France, from photographs.

These watercolors, kindly provided for the exhibition by the grandson of the artist - Dmitry Ivanovich Vyshnegradsky, living in Paris, are exhibited for the first time.