Paris and the Russian avant-garde
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Friday 10 August 2018
(11am-4.30pm) - Brockway Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
- Lecturer: Natalia Murray
In the early years of the twentieth century Paris was the centre of the international art world. The embodiment of ‘modernity’, it attracted ambitious artists from around Europe and further afield. Since the latter years of the nineteenth century, wealthy Russians like Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov had opened their collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist, Symbolist, Fauve and Cubist art to a select public, including artists. A significant number of Russian artists subsequently moved to Paris and worked in close proximity and collaboration with their French and international contemporaries, creating works that produced an exciting synthesis of these new avant-garde impulses and their own rich artistic heritage.
Lecturer
Dr Natalia Murray is an art historian specialising in Russian art. BA from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, PhD (2014) from the Courtauld Institute of Art in Twentieth-century Russian Art. Natalia lectures on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian Art at The Courtauld and the University of Sussex. She curated Revolution, Russian Art 1917-1932 at the RA and led a Society study day, Art at the time of the Revolution, to link with the exhibition. Her books and articles extend across the wide field of 19-20th century Russian and European art, and she has featured in films dedicated to the Hermitage Museum and the Russian revolution and in programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Natalia is also a trustee of the Russian Avant-Garde Research Project, a UK-based charity which shares one of her aspirations to encourage and advance the wider understanding of the avant-garde art and to reduce the number of fakes on the art market.
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