Amazons of the avant-garde

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CuratedbyJohnE.Bowlt,MatthewDrutt,andZelfiraTregulova
DeutscheGuggenheimBerlin,July10—October17, 1999
RoyalAcademyofArts.London.November10.1999-February6,2000
PeggyGuggenheimCollection,Venice,February29-May28,2000
GuggenheimMuseumBilbao.June12-September3.2000
SolomonR.GuggenheimMuseum,NewYork,September14,,2000—January10,2001
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RegioneVeneto,Alitalia,and:
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EssaybyJaneA. Sharp
185 LIUBOVPOPOVa
Essays byNataliaAdaskinaandDmitriiSarabianov
ai3 OLGarozanova
EssaybyNina Gurianova
241 varvaraSTepanova
EssaybyAlexanderLavrentiev
271 naDezHDa UDarrsova
EssaybyVasiliiRakitin
298 DocumenTS
348 LISTOFPLaTeS/BIBLIOGraPHY
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SolomonR.Guggenheim JonlmanolAzua
JustinK.Thannhauser PeterM. Brant
PeggyGuggenheim MarySharpCronson
GailMayEngelberg
HonorarycHairman DanielFilipacchi
PeterLawson-Johnston MartinD.Gruss
BarbaraJonas
CHairman DavidH.Koch
PeterB. Lewis ThomasKrens
BarbaraLane
vice-presiDems PeterLawson-Johnston
WendyL-J.McNeil PeterLawson-JohnstonII
JohnS.Wadsworth,Jr. SamuelJ.LeFrak
PeterB.Lewis
vice-presiDem WendyL-J. McNeil
anD Treasurer EdwardH. Meyer
StephenC.Swid FrederickW. Reid
RichardA.Rifkind
Diredor DeniseSaul
ThomasKrens TerrySemel
JamesB.Sherwood
secreTary RajaW.Sidawi
EdwardF.Rover SeymourSlive
StephenC.Swid
HonoraryTrusTee JohnS.Wadsworth,Jr.
ClaudePompidou CornelWest
JohnWilmerding
TrusTees exofficio WilliamT.Ylvisaker
DakisJoannou
BenjaminB. Rauch
DiredorEmeriTus
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vice-presiDenT William M. Hollis. Jr David Helion
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Samuel H. Lindenbaum Nicolas Helion
HononaryCHairman June Lowell LaurenceandSandro Rumney
Claude Pompidou Cristian Mantero ClovisVail
Achille Maramotti JuliaVail and Bruce Mouland
Honoraryco-CHairman Valeria Monti KaroleP.B. Vail
H.R.HThe Grand Duchessof Luigi Moscheri MarkVail
Luxembourg Raymond D. Nasher
Christina Newburgh
HonorarymemBer Giovanni Pandini
OlgaAdamishina Annelise Ratti
Benjamin B. Rauch
raeniBers RichardA. Rifkind
LuigiAgrati Dodie Rosekrans
StevenAmes Nanette Ross
GiuseppinaAraldiGuinetti Miles Rubin
MariaAngelesAristrain Aldo Sacchi
RosaAyer SirTimothySainsbury
MareheseAnnibale Berlingieri Denise Saul
AlexanderBernstein Evelina Schapira
PattiCadby Birch Hannelore Schulhof
Davide Blei James B. Sherwood
Mary Bloch RikiTaylor
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The EarlCastleStewart MelissaUlfane
Claudio Cavazza LeopoldoVillarealF.
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RosemaryChisholm Feick Enrico Chiari
MaryGaggia William Feick,Jr.
David Gallagher Evelyn Lambert
DanielleGardner Jacques E. Lennon
PatriciaGerber Umberto Nordio
Marino Golinelli Anna Scotti
Christian Habermann KristenVenable
OLGa rozanova
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Oiloncanvas,118x101cm
ArtMuseum,Samara
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THomas Krens
The GuggenheimMuseumhasadistinguishedhistoryincollectingandpresenting
theartoftheRussianavant-garde. In1929, SolomonR. GuggenheimmetVasily
KandinskyinhisBauhausstudio, beginningarelationshipthatwouldresultinthis
pioneeringRussianabstractpainterbecomingcloselyassociatedwiththemuseum's
permanentcollection. MasterpiecesbyRussiansMarcChagall, NataliaGoncharova.
Mikhail Larionov, ElLissitzky, and KazimirMalevichwereacquiredbythemuseum
earlyon, andremainsomeofourmosttreasuredworks.
Overtheyearswehavemountedmanyexhibitionsdevotedto Russianartists,
withnofewerthannineteensince 1945 devotedto Kandinskyalone. OtherRussian
mastershonoredbytheGuggenheiminclude Malevich (1973), Chagall (1975and
1993), andNaumGabo (1986). In 1981,theGuggenheimorganizedArtoftheAvant-
GardeinRussia:SelectionsfromtheGeorgeCostakisCollection-, asweepingsurvey, it
resultedintwopublicationsthatremaincentraltothescholarshiponthesubject. In
1992,wepresentedTheGreat Utopia: TheRussianandSovietAvant-Garde, 1915—1932.
whichremainsthemostcomprehensiveinvestigationofthesubjecttodate.
It iswithinthiscontextthatwearepleasedto organizeanotherhistoricexhibi-
tionofRussianart. AmazonsoftheAvant-Gardeisamodelofscholarshipandcura-
torialacumen. Itbringstogetherdistinguishedmasterpiecesoftheperiod,
includingmanynotshownintheWestsincetheywere created.Thisisthefirsttrav-
elingexhibitionorganizedforthe DeutscheGuggenheimBerlin. FollowingBerlin
andthe RoyalAcademy,thepresentationofthe exhibitionatthe PeggyGuggenheim
Collectionoffersanidealsettingforunderstandingtheachievementsofthese
artistsagainstabackgroundofworksbyotherRussiansaswellasbythe Parisian
CubistsinPeggyGuggenheim'scollection, andbythe ItalianFuturists, magnifi-
centlyrepresentedintheGianni MattioliCollection.
CuratorsJohnE. Bowlt, MatthewDrutt, andZelfiraTregulovadeftlyorganized
thisproject, andIamgratefultothemfortheircooperationandhardwork.Weare
indebtedtothelenderstothisexhibition, notonlybecausetheyallowedustobor-
rowtheirtreasuredworks,butbecausetheyhave madeimportantcontributionsto
thescholarshipofthispublication. Finally, I amdeeplygratefulto Dr. Rolf-E.
Breuer, SpokesmanoftheBoardofManagingDirectorsofDeutsche Bank, forhis
ongoingsupportofthecollaborationbetweenourinstitutions. I amthankfulfor
Deutsche Bank'senthusiasmfortheprojectaswellas itssponsorship ofthetour.
LenDers to THe exHiBiTion
ArtCo.Ltd. (GeorgeCostakisCollection)
ArtMuseum.Samara
SolomonR.GuggenheimMuseum,NewYork
KrasnodarDistrictKovalenkoArtMuseum
ModernaMuseet,Stockholm
ElenaMurinaandDmitriiSarabianov,Moscow
MuseoThyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
MuseumLudwig,Cologne
MuseumofHistoryandArchitecture,Pereiaslavl-Zalesskii
MuseumofPrivateCollections,
PushkinStateMuseumofFineArts. Moscow
MuseumofVisualArts,Ekaterinburg
NationalArtMuseumofUkraine,Kiev
NationalGalleryofCanada,Ottawa
NationalMuseumandGallery,Cardiff
PrivateCollection
PrivateCollection,CourtesyGalleryGmurzynska,Cologne
RegionalArtMuseum,Ulianovsk
RegionalPictureGallery,Vologda
RostovKremlinStateMuseumPreserve
SlobodskoiMuseumandExhibitionCenter
Staatsgalerie,Stuttgart
StateArtMuseumofBashkkortostan.Ufa
StateMuseumofHistory,Architecture,andArt,Smolensk
StateMuseumoftheVisualArtsofTatarstan,Kazan
StateMuseumofVisualArts,NizhniiTagil
StatePictureGallery,Perm
StateRadischevArtMuseum,Saratov
StateRussianMuseum,St.Petersburg
StateTretiakovGallery,Moscow
StateUnifiedArtMuseum,Kostroma
CarmenThyssen-BornemiszaCollection
VasnetsovRegionalArtMuseum,Kirov
YaleUniversityArtGallery,NewHaven