Vasilij Kandinskij. Improvvisazione n. 34, 1913 (detail)
Oil on cloth. 120 x 139 cm.
Kazan, Museum statale say Belle Arti della Repubblica of the Tartarstan

Futurism 100: Illuminations. Avant-gardes compared. Italy, Germany, Russia is the title of the exhibition that honors 100 years of futurism in the Museum say that Modern and Contemporary Art I gave Rovereto, Italy.

What will we be able to see? The sample assembles pieces of Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Umberto Boccioni, Gino Severini, Alexandra Exter or Natalia Goncharova. The proposal of the exhibition is to analyze the relations between the futurism and other contemporary avant-gardes, like the German expressionism or the Russian bucket - futurism.

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One of the pieces of the auction

The head office of London of Sotheby's will auction on January 29 a collection of unpublished drawings of Marc Chagall, contained in 43 books signed by the artist, in addition to sketches in watercolor, ink and cake.

The same ones will be able turn in exhibition from January 14 until January 18 in the Fair of Art of Islington, every piece is estimated between 550 and 16.700 euros.

The same ones belong to the couple Alfred and Irmgard Neuman, who were neighbors and friends of the painter when he was living in the south of France. In addition to the drawings, there will be auctioned an album of photos and negatives of Chagall, taken Alfred between 1974 and 1984 estimated in 3.300 to 4.400 euros.

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The Invention of the XXth Century: Carl Einstein and the avant-gardes is the title of the gentle exhibition of modern art that you can visit in the National museum Center of Art Queen Sophia.

What will we be able to see? The sample is assembled by 120 works, paintings and a set of 35 African sculptures, in order to provide to the spectator a visual description of the intellectual work of Carl Einstein, one of the more important historians of art.

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The painter and French designer of Russian origin Marc Chagall (1887-1985), is one of the biggest exponents of painting and graphic art of the XXth century. His surrealistic inventiveness, mixed with the humor and the fantasy, there are some of the characteristics of this teacher of the modern art.

Born in Vítebsk (today in Belorussia), in the bosom of a Jewish family on July 7, 1887, received the artistic instruction in Saint Petersburg, until in 1910 it moves to Paris for four years, returning to Russia, where after the Revolution, he was the director of the Academy of Art of Vítebsk (1918-19) and then the director of the State Jewish Theater of Moscow (1919-22).En 1923 would return France, where it would settle definitely.

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