Exhibition dedicated to the 130th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Lapshin

On September 16, an exhibition of graphic works by one of the best masters of the Leningrad landscape school of the 1930-1940s, Nikolai Fyodorovich Lapshin, opens at KGallery. The exhibition will feature watercolors of 1937-1940 from the gallery collection, including the works "Winter Canal" (1939), "Bridge over the Fontanka" (1939), "New Holland" (1940), shown at the exhibition "Three Petersburg Collections" in State Russian Museum. Most of the watercolors have not been exhibited before and will be presented to a wide range of spectators for the first time. A special edition will be prepared for the exhibition, which will include all the artist's works from the KGallery collection.

In 2021, it will be the 130th anniversary of Lapshin's birth. KGallery, traditionally showing large monographic exhibitions of artists of the twentieth century, this time opens a small exhibition of graphic works by Nikolai Fedorovich to show a single series created by him shortly before his death in 1941. These drawings were previously kept by the artist Militsa Sergeevna Charnetskaya, who knew Lapshin and his work closely. The collection of Militsa Sergeevna turned out to be owned by the St. Petersburg architect and collector of graphics Alexei Gennadievich Zhuravlev, from whom, in 2015, 33 works of the artist were purchased for the gallery's collection.

Anyone who sees the exposition will be especially curious to see Lapshin's double-sided drawings, for which special boxes will be made to show the work from both sides, because Nikolai Fedorovich used both sides of the sheet for his watercolors. The works presented at the exhibition are a typical example of Lapshin's graphics, for which the artist and other representatives of the Leningrad landscape school received the name "Soviet Markists". These watercolors by Lapshin have everything that both experts and spectators who are not indifferent to his talent love so much: the ease of execution of the recognizable symbols of the city, the composure of the composition, skillfully balanced sketchiness and completeness, the gentle Leningrad-Petersburg flavor.