Karl Bryullov’s painting “Christ in the Tomb” will be shown to the public for the first time at the Russian Museum as part of the exhibition dedicated to the 225th anniversary of the artist. This was reported by Interfax.
“Bryullov is one of the greatest Russian geniuses and Russian artists. “Bryullov is among our Russian painters on the world shortlist,” he said, describing the exhibition of the painting as a sensation of worldwide importance.
The exhibition “Charles the Great. On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the birth of KP. Bryullov” will be held at the end of 2024 in the Mikhailovsky Castle. The exhibition will include approximately 300 paintings and graphic works by Bryullov from the collections of the Russian Museum and the country’s leading museums.
The painting “Christ in the Tomb” was painted in March 2003 in St. It was seized from the German collector Alexander Pevzner in the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg. He took it across the Russian border but did not declare it.
In 2016, the work became part of the Museum Fund at the initiative of the State Russian Museum. On June 14, 2017, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation decided to return the painting to the collector, but in 2019 the Supreme Court refused to return the painting.
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