Collector from Spain Dolores Thomas Silvestre gave Russian museums 58 paintings

Collector from Spain Dolores Thomas Silvestre gave Russian museums 58 paintings
27 November 2017, Monday
The Art Newspaper Russia

The founder of the Spanish Surikov Fund, Dolores Thomas Silvestre, donated 58 works of 20th-century artists to the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation.


The gift will be divided between four museums: eight works will be included in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, as much as the State Museum and Exhibition Center "ROSIZO", and the rest will be distributed between Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd art museums.


The collection of the Tretyakov Gallery will be replenished with the works of two artists. According to the museum researcher Vera Golovina, they were selected from the largest monographic sections in the collection of Dolores Thomas Silvestre. One of the authors was Aron Bukh (1923-2006), according to the director of the Tretyakov Gallery Zelfira Tregulova, "popular among collectors, but not represented with us", and the second was Vadim Velichko (born in 1929), a Moscow graphic artist, a representative of " left MOSKh ". Among those whose works will be ROSIZO, Vasily Martynov (1888-1971), Kerop Sogomonyan (born 1951) and Alexander Chervonenko (1912-1994). Director of the museum and exhibition center Sergey Perov promised that the works "will not be stored on the shelves and will necessarily see the viewer."


The Surikov Foundation is a non-profit organization whose purpose is "to spread the great heritage of Russian art and culture in Spain and other countries." The main part of the collection of the fund, which specializes in Soviet and Russian figurative art of the XX century, is the collection of its founder and curator Dolores Thomas Silvestre, which includes about 4 thousand works.


As Thomas Sylvester explained, she began to collect Russian art, because she did not want unofficial artists to remain unknown.


"It all began with an acquaintance with a Russian artist in the School of the Arts of Madrid. I saw that almost everything he created during his life lay in a box. And this was a recurring trend. Therefore, I decided to collect these things, important for Russian history, in order to show them in the future, "TANR interlocutor said. In search of works collector traveled around the Moscow region, visited many cities in the Russian province. The decision to transfer part of her collection as a gift to Russian museums, she accepted, "so that the work of important artists that became known, including thanks to the activities of the Surikov Foundation, appeared in Russian museums."

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