“The period of their creativity in emigration has been wrenched out of books on art history and was poorly represented in domestic museums’ collections,” Maria Roguleva, editor-in-chief ART+AUCTION magazine, is quoted by Gazeta.Ru as saying. Now that the theme of emigrant Russian art is causing more and more interest, the exhibition acquaints us with works never previously displayed to mass audience in Russia.

Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

Among “Russian Americans” represented at the expo are artists who have won renown already in exile, for example Pavel Tchelitchew and brothers Eugène and Leonid Bermans. Pavel Tchelitchew became known in the USA much earlier than in Russia. In 1942, his personal exhibition was held in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Eugène and Leonid Bermans' careers, learning from the French symbolists, also became known only in absentia.

“The theme of Russian emigration art has been in focus of attention of “Our artists” gallery for a long time,” Natalia Kurnikova, the owner of the gallery says. “I believe that Russian emigrant artists much developed the value of the rise of national culture in the beginning of the 20th Century.”

The exhibition opens on September 13 and will run through to September 27 in “Our Artists” gallery.