By Yury Arpishkin The Moscow News
In its anniversary year, the Tretyakov Gallery has opened a new display hall on its premises, where there will be a month-long retrospective of Russian avant-garde painter Olga Rozanova
The formal reason for holding the first personal exhibition of Olga Rozanova's works is the discovery of her archive in Germany, hitherto thought to have been lost forever. It was recently found and consequently bought by a Russian citizen, who has lent it to the State Tretyakov Gallery for display. The archive, at one time saved by Rozanova's brother, contains her early sketches and drawings, and a multitude of personal papers and letters. It seems that we now have a chance to learn more about the personality of one of the "Amazons of the Russian avant-garde." Under this title, poet Benedikt Livshiz (1887-1939) in his day brought together six female artists who had lived at the turn of the 19th-20th century. Each of them, however, had a distinctive life trajectory. Rozanova's was the shortest and most triumphant.
