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# Jewish Museum opens first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-evreiskom-muzee-v-konstruktivistskom-zdanii-bakhmetevskogo-garazha-otkrylas-pervaia-za-35-let-monograficheskaia-vystavka-liubovi-popovoi-liuba-liubochka/
- Published: 2024-11-10T16:43:16.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:44:44.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Art, Moscow, Museums

The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time.

It offers one more occasion to recall the worldwide significance of Russian art and culture, and to consider the trials that befell its greatest achievements and their creators, such that a hundred years on we are obliged to gather scattered evidence and artefacts grain by grain. The avant-garde, which became Russia's calling card on the world stage, remains in many respects a mysterious and understudied movement.

Lyubov Popova lived only 35 years, a short but eventful life, and her artistic legacy staggers the imagination: from graphic art and textiles to academic painting, from theatre sketches to world-renowned avant-garde masterpieces.

Besides art, the exhibition is filled with documents and memorial items: photographs from family archives and touching letters. The parallel display of works by the artist's teachers, friends and contemporaries (Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Henri Le Fauconnier and Varvara Stepanova) makes a great impression.

We owe the possibility of organising so representative an exhibition in large part to the collector of the Russian avant-garde Georgy Kostaki, who assembled an incredibly voluminous body of material, from sketches and preparatory studies to the most dazzling works. Kostaki gave his richest collection of Lyubov Popova's works to the Tretyakov Gallery

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