Diagilev: nachalo (Diagilev: the beginning); :
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2009. Sewn cl. This exhibition catalogue of the Russian Museum deals with two themes essential to European art history: the discovery and propagation outside Russia of Russian painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of whose works Diagilev exhibited in Paris Salon d'automne in 1906. His most dazzling success was publicizing artists working in a modernist vein who learned from and added to the experiments of Western European artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — Larionov and Vrubel', Benois and Dobuzhinskii, Bakst and Somov, Serov and Elena Polenova, Bilibin and Trubetskoi, to name a few. Many of them would go on to work with him in he Ballets russes and Saisons russes as set and costume designers. Diagilev managed to acquaint Western Europe with Russian art and show Russians how significant was their artistic heritage and how talented were their contemporaries. 255 p., 32 cm, approx. 200 color, Rus. Item #1971
ISBN: 9785933323310
Chapter titles: "Russian years" of Sergei Diagilev; Exhibition of Russian and Finnish artists in St. Petersburg in 1898; Historico-Artistic Exhibition of Portraits in St. Petersburg, 1905; Exhibition "Two Centuries of Russian Painting and Sculpture" at the Paris salon in 1906; Bakst's theater curtain; the role of Diagilev in building the Tretyakov Gallery's collection of 18th-c. painting.
Price: $79.00