VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The prime minister was shown around the exhibition by Tretyakov Gallery director Irina Lebedeva, Konchalovsky’s grandchildren, film directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky, and Alexander Konov, director of the Petr Konchalovsky Foundation.
Putin especially liked the paintings “Floor Polisher” (1946), “Family Portrait” (1912) and “Belkino. Birch Trees” (1907). He said about the latter: “A beautiful painting. You actually become immersed in it.”
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The exhibition features paintings from the Petr Konchalovsky Foundation, the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum and from private collections. This is the first time paintings from the personal collections of the artist’s family are being shown to the public, along with rare archive materials and documents such as correspondence with Picasso, a letter from the Paul Cezanne Society, and reports by the Cheka political police on the sale of paintings abroad.
The exhibition consists of about 100 paintings and drawings dated between 1900 and the 1950s.
