November 24. Lecture by Georgy Khatchenkov, an art critic and collector (Monaco), on unknown Russian painting of the 1st half of the 20th century was held at SPbUHSS.

November 24. Lecture by Georgy Khatchenkov, an art critic, collector, Candidate of Historical Sciences (Monaco) “Unknown Russia. Russian Painting of the First Half of the 20th Century” was held at SPbUHSS. Daniil Granin, a famous Russian writer, attended the lecture.

Georgy Khatchenkov is known for having discovered and put into cultural circulation a big course of Russian cultural history. There are about 5000 works of 700 Russian painters who left Russia in the early 20th century after the Revolution of 1917, in the collection of spouses Khatchenkovs, owners of the art-gallery Monaco-Fine-Art. Among them are: Aleksej Jawlensky, Chaim Soutine, Léon Bakst, Yury Annenkov, Léopold Survage, Serge Ferat (Sergey Jastrebtzoff), Sergey Ivanov, Pavel Chelischev, Maria Vasilieva, Leonid Frechkopf and many others. Khatchenkov’s collection was the basis of several large exhibitions that have become significant events of the contemporary art life.

The lecture was addressed to students, graduates and professors of SPbUHSS’s Faculty of Arts.

Publication date: 26 november 2015