Novyi muzei: sobranie Aslana Chekhoeva (Novyi muzei: Aslan Chkhoeva's collection)
St. Petersburg: Novyi muzei, 2010. sewn pb. The post-Soviet period has seen a new phenomenon in Russian art: founding museums based on private collections. For seventy years in the communist regime building individual wealth was taboo, and art collecting impracticable. In the 1990s and 2000s getting resources sufficient to collect art became possible. The eye, interests, and taste of the collector were of course key to the quality and direction of the new collections. Chekhoev's interest was post-World War II Soviet and contemporary art, and the quality of works he chose ishigh, and the range of styles and schools impressive, including both Leningrad and Moscow artists such as Timur Novikov, Pavel Pepptershtein, Oskar Rabin, Evgenii Rukhiin, and Viktor Pivovarov. 263 p., 28 cm, 92 color illus., Rus. Item #187
ISBN: 9785990219410
Price: $103.00