Experts of Pushkin Museum discovered another image under the painting «Sabbath day» by Andre Derain

State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin (Pushkin Museum) will present the first results of the study web Andre Derain "Sabbath day" in late December - early January, and in October of next year, the picture will go to the monographic exhibition of Derain at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Cloth Andre Derain "Sabbath day" refers to the most significant works of Pushkin meeting them. Pushkin is the central product of the so-called Gothic period Art Derain. Picture "The Sabbath" among the seven canvases in the first half of 1914 was one of the latest acquisitions of art patron and collector Sergei Shchukin to his Moscow meeting, and later expanded the collection of the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin.

This large-scale painting was supposed to take part in the opening in October of this year's exhibition in Paris Foundation Louis Vuitton, dedicated Shchukin and created with the participation of the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum. Pushkin. However, Pushkin Museum could not afford the "Sabbath day" for the show, because the state of the picture caused concern among museum staff. The cost of restoration work and terms depend on the fact that further research will show paintings, but the museum is calculated to prepare the "Sabbath" to be exhibited at the monographic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Andre Derain (1880-1954) - painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer, representative of the French avant-garde. Critics describe the style of work Derain 1912-13. as "strict", "Gothic". In 1928 the artist won the Carnegie Prize for Still Life "Game". Derain works are exhibited in many museums around the world, including in the State Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum.