Lavrushinsky lane, 10, halls 47–48

Entered into Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions though half of life has spent to France and Belgium. Has developed a special picturesque manner in which freedom and constructibility, clearness of voice-frequency and colour relations, a subtlety of transfer of effects of illumination is inherent. The landscapes of Pohitonov painted on wooden plates of a small format (I.E.Repin named them “tiny pearls”), are comparable to Dutch paintings; the masterly technics close to tiny painting, the artist has connected to live and direct feeling of the nature. Besides the landscapes highly appreciated in the Russian and French art environment of second half XIX – the XX-th century beginnings, wrote genre sketches, still-lifes, portraits (among the best – “Portrait of I.S.Turgenev” 1882).

It will be shown about 70 works from funds of the Tretyakov gallery and a Otar Marganii’s collection (Moscow).

Ivan Pavlovich Pohitonov (1850–1923) have nicknamed by contemporaries “the most French among Russian landscape writers”. Known more all as the landscape and marine painter, he studied in Paris by A.Bogoljubov, has come under influence by Barbizon school.