Russian Avant-Garde Women Artists at Milan's Palazzo Reale
Palazzo Reale in Milan presents 'Russian Avant-Garde Women Artists,' an exhibition featuring 90 masterpieces, many unseen in Italy, across eight sections and two chapters. The show highlights women's roles as icons, revolutionaries, and creators, from religious icons to Soviet realism. It includes works by Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Alexandra Exter, Zinaida Serebriakova, and Vera Mukhina, alongside portraits by male masters like Dmitry Levitsky and Kazimir Malevich. The exhibition traces the evolution from pre-18th-century religious art through depictions of empresses (Catherine the Great), peasant life, family, and avant-garde experimentation, ending with Mukhina's bronze model for 'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' at the 1937 Paris Expo.
Key facts
- Exhibition at Palazzo Reale, Milan, features 90 masterpieces.
- Many works are previously unseen in Italy.
- Exhibition is divided into 8 sections and 2 chapters.
- Includes works by Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Alexandra Exter, Zinaida Serebriakova, Vera Mukhina.
- Features portraits by Dmitry Levitsky and Kazimir Malevich.
- Covers themes from religious icons to Soviet realism.
- Highlights Catherine the Great and her correspondence with Voltaire.
- Ends with Mukhina's model for 'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' (1937 Paris Expo).
Entities
Artists
- Natalia Goncharova
- Liubov Popova
- Olga Rozanova
- Alexandra Exter
- Zinaida Serebriakova
- Vera Mukhina
- Dmitry Levitsky
- Kazimir Malevich
- Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
- Anna Akhmatova
- Nikolay Gumilev
- Pakhomov
- Leo Tolstoy
- Voltaire
- Catherine the Great
- Peter III
Institutions
- Palazzo Reale
- State Russian Museum
- Artribune
Locations
- Milan
- Italy
- Russia
- St. Petersburg
- Crimea
- Paris