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Merchandise Mart & Market Square: a new opening!
Esquifs à la Mer - Georges LAPCHINE
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Biography : André Charles VOILLEMOT
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Biography : A.O.Orlovsky
1777 - 1832
A.Orlovsky is one of the most brilliant and typical representatives of
the art of Romanticism. Being an outstanding graphic artist, a master
of lithography (he was the author of the first Russian artistic
lithography), and a painter, he worked in different genres and chose
various themes and means, which was typical for artists of Romanticism.
The
artists had worked in Russia since 1802. He was on the service of the
grand prince Konstantin Pavlovich and lived in his residence, the
Marble Palace. Here he spend the most fruitful and rich in artistic
explorations years of his life. Therefore, the exhibition devoted to
creative work of A.Orlovsky is situated in the Marble Palace.
More
than 130 works of graphics and paintings from depositories of the
Russian museum will be exhibited. And portraits of A.N.Olenin,
Ch.Kameron, D.Kvarengi, L.-A.Dupor, as well as portrait series of
Tomilovys and Lanskiyes, caricatures and grotesques, landscapes, genre
drawings, and illustrations for fables of I.A.Krylov will be among
them.