By Inna Rogatchi–
LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS
PART I. GEMS & DISCOVERIES
Alone with Chagall
If this exhibition were to be on display in Paris or New York, the queues and hype there would be the same as at the Vermeer show in Amsterdam or van Gogh’s one in London. I was lucky in Vilnius. I came to the Vytautas Kasiulius Museum of Art, part of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, next to Neris river, just before its opening, and was among very few first visitors of the day. A fantastic day, a gift which would stay with me for good, as any great exhibition does.
In an unbelievable exhibition opened at the end of May and running until the end of September this year, as many as 130 works are on display of 21 great artists of the Ecole de Paris, all Litvaks of the group. The bulk of the collection comes from France, from two great sources, the private collection and estate of the Chagall family, and from the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris. There are also very good works from the rich collections of the Lithuanian museums, and very valuable works from several notable private collections, including the Rafael Chwoles family, the TARTLE Art collection, the Lost Shtetl forthcoming museum in Seduva, and the others.
And there is an entire large hall of Chagall with 33 works in different mediums. To find oneself in such a hall alone is like day-dreaming. You are struggling in between your awe, love, tangible misbelief that you are not dreaming, and a pulsating thought that you would like to be there alone for as long as it takes.
In an unbelievable exhibition opened at the end of May and running until the end of September this year, as many as 130 works are on display of 21 great artists of the Ecole de Paris, all Litvaks of the group. The bulk of the collection comes from France, from two great sources, the private collection and estate of the Chagall family, and from the Museum of Art and History of Judaism in Paris. There are also very good works from the rich collections of the Lithuanian museums, and very valuable works from several notable private collections, including the Rafael Chwoles family, the TARTLE Art collection, the Lost Shtetl forthcoming museum in Seduva, and the others.
And there is an entire large hall of Chagall with 33 works in different mediums. To find oneself in such a hall alone is like day-dreaming. You are struggling in between your awe, love, tangible misbelief that you are not dreaming, and a pulsating thought that you would like to be there alone for as long as it takes. Continue Reading….