Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center Presents 123 Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes

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Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center Presents 123 Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes

The works on view in Sao Paulo come from the Russian State Museum of St. Petersburg, which holds the most important public collection of works by Kazimir Malevich including this series now on view in Brazil. Photo: EFE/Sebastião. Moreira. SAO PAULO.- Banco do Brasil’s Cultural Center opened an exhibition of 123 works of art on loan from the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg. The show includes works by the Russian Avant-Gardes including Marc Chagal, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malievich. The works on view in Sao Paulo come from the Russian State Museum of St. Petersburg, which holds the most important public collection of works by Malevich. In March 1936, about one year after the artist’s death, the Museum received a donation from his family of 86 paintings and some 80 drawings, practically everything that was left in his apartment at the time when he died. A few months later, in June 1936, after an article entitled On Formalism in Art had been published in Pravda, the museum received strict instructions to eliminate Malevich’s canvases from its permanent collections. So it was that, just as the artist had foretold while he was still alive, the building became a sort of cemetery of his art. ... More

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Banco do Brasil's Cultural Center Presents 123 Works Made by the Russian Avant-Gardes