June 3, 2017 Our
third full day in Moscow (added to blog June 12, 2017)
Saturday June 3rd we were off to the Tretyakov,
which has two separate galleries, one on Lavrushinsky Lane with two Icons on
the 1001 list and the other gallery on Krymsky Val with one painting on the
1001 list. I’ve been checking weekly and
they are all on display, or so I thought.
We started at Lavrushinsky with the Icons and Pre-20th century
paintings. We found the two Icons on the
list. This gallery had multiple versions
of the “Trinity” Icon and the “Dormition of the Virgin”.” That was or is the practice with Icons. Each painting had small differences, but the
subject was always the same. The next
gallery was about a 20 minute walk along the Moskva River. There is a tremendous amount of construction
going on many of the streets in Moscow, and of course we had to detour on our
way to Krymsky Val. It appears that they
are installing new natural gas lines along the streets. There were bundles of polyethylene piping at
most of the construction sites. One of
my many jobs had a little to do with joining pipe sections.
As you can see from the photos we passed several interesting
sights on cuisinethe walk to the next gallery.
The Peter the Great Monument is very impressive. We eventually got to the gallery on Krymsky
Val only to find out that the painting on our list was NOT on display! In fact there were no paintings in gallery 9
where the Kandinsky (I really like his work) was supposed to have been. We learned that it was part of an exhibition
that may be at the New York Guggenheim this fall. This may require another trip if I can
confirm that this painting will be on display.
The interesting thing about this painting (at least to me) is that I
checked the museum’s web pages I had saved showing the painting on display. All of the web pages I had bookmarked for
this gallery could not be found. I was
directed to a new, updated web site. My
assumption is that they were working on the release of the new web site and did
NOT bother updating the old one.
Tracking down these paintings isn’t always easy.
There were two paintings at Krymsky Val that I MAY use as
substitutes for two paintings in St. Petersburg that “per the State Russian
Museum” web site are not on display. The
first is the painting “Peasants Picking Apples” by Natalia Goncharova at
Tretyakov; the very similar painting not on display is “Peasants.” The Krymsky had “Black Square” by Kasimir Malevich
on display (his most notable work) that I MAY substitute for the “Black Circle”
by Malevich that isn’t on display. I
know you want to know this stuff.
The gallery at Krymsky Val is not far from Gorky Park, so that was our
next destination. It was a nice day,
sunny and not too warm. It is a popular
place. The photos show just some of what
is going on. After the park we returned
to the hotel for to rest up before dinner.
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