Out of the Red

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Now it forms the climax of a selection from Russia's national archives, writes David Caute Out of the red The modernists believed that art was mainly about itself, rather than the servant of nature On 9 January 120 paintings from Russia, scheduled for display at the Royal Academy under the financial patronage of the energy giant E.ON, were being loaded into container trucks in Dusseldorf. A significant number of pre-1917 modernist artists did stay put in Bolshevik Russia and forge new careers, some receiving Soviet honours, among them Malevich, Tatlin, Filonov and Konchalovsky.\n Spirits rise as a number of Cézannes collected by Morozov come into view, my favourites being Girl at the Piano (c.i86g) and his tender view of loneliness and advancing years Woman in Blue (1900-1902.)

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Out of the Red

Modernist art that refused to conform was suppressed during the rise of the Soviet Union. Now it forms the climax of a selection from Russia's national archives, writes David Caute

Out of the red

The modernists believed that art was mainly about itself, rather than the servant of nature

On 9 January 120 paintings from Russia, scheduled for display at the Royal Academy under the financial patronage of the energy giant E.ON, were being loaded into container trucks in Dusseldorf. The dr...

See the full content of this document

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