Alexandra Terentieva

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Alexandra Terentieva
The Silver Age of the Russian Poster

№2 2011 (31)

The exhibition “Irrelevant Advertising. Russian Posters of the Early 20th Century” presents a collection of posters, now held at the Tretyakov Gallery, that were produced before the Bolshevik revolution. At the core of this collection are those put together by Fedor Fedorov and acquired by the museum in 1933. The art scholar Alexei Korostin wrote about Fedorov in 1950: “A collector of posters and bookplates, in other words – a partisan of the extremes who collected either very big or very small items.” A separate section is devoted to playbills the gallery received, in 1989, as a part of Mikhail Larionovʼs and Natalya Goncharovaʼs “Parisian legacy” gifted to the museum in accordance with the will of Larionovʼs widow, Alexandra Larionova-Tomilina.