THEATRICAL COLLECTION
50 Paintings
Theatrical Collection of National Museum of American-Eurasian
Art & Culture / American - Eurasian Art Foundation
has over 2000 museum artworks of American and International contemporary artists. Designs.
The History of Theatrical Costume The Yuri Yurovsky Collection
Collection of original sketches of costumes and sets from elaborate Theatrical Costume designers of the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60s of Eurasia. This particular group of costume designers’ works of art is part of a special art collection of the artist and Art Collector Yuri Yurovsky
Yuri was a member of the art group, educated and highly cultured environment, which includes: Tatiana Bruni, Anatoly Petritsky, Fedor Nirod and many more, It is well-known artists scenographers who created costumes and scenery for the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theater of Opera and Ballet, the Kiev Opera.
During this period, Yurovsky begins to collect drawings and paintings of his friends. Carefully, for several decades he gather a collection of museum quality.
Among the leading artists in this collection, a place of honor is reserved for Tatiana Bruni (1902-2001) whose drawings were the subject of two exhibitions: Tatiana Bruni Legend of the Kirov in June 2015 at Washington Russian Cultural Center and the following year at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Tatiana Guéorguiévna BRUNI (Saint Petersburg 1902 - 2001) came from a great dynasty of artists that counts among others
Féodor Bruni, great painter to which we owe the decoration of the cathedral
Saint Isaac of Saint Petersburg.
A pupil of Petrov-Vodkine, Tatiana Bruni is first devoted to the landscape, before to be passionate and to devote oneself for more from half a century to theater sets Marinsky.
She perpetuated the great tradition there of the theatrical setting of Imperial Russia. His hand is found in all his creations, with a sure line, a drawing synthetic which lets express the color in a fairyland where appear the warm colors of Spain and the spell of the Eternal East. Let's keep in mind that this theater with dreamlike through the tragic years of Russian history and keeps the spirit alive of Balanchine's "young ballet" which she was one of the muses.
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