Friday, 2 October 2026

Review of the first painting exhibition “Jack of Diamonds” at the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 1910

Black-and-white group photograph of seven men in a studio, with a round emblem showing a playing-card jack and the words “Jack of Diamonds” on the left.

"This shameless card... recalls an asylum for the insane rather than an exhibition of works of art"

From a review of the first Exhibition of Painting, "The Jack of Diamonds", which opened in the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka on 10 December 1910

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