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Do you know how many masterpieces of world art are stored in storage rooms, almost forever hidden for painting lovers. For example, the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow does not flaunt over 10 percent of the paintings, and the museum Guggenheim in the United States and even less – 2-3 percent. AND this despite the fact that in the vaults are not some secondary paintings are masterpieces!
Suffice it to say that the New York Museum of Modern art hangs on display for visitors no more than 24 paintings Pablo Picasso, at a time when he has 1221 jobs this famous artist.
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Joseph Wright’s painting “Coliseum in the Moonlight”, which also lies in storage
What are the reasons for this strange behavior of almost everyone museums in the world? Let’s get to know them, so as not to blame art galleries in some kind of secret intentions. Here they are objective reasons:
- no museum in the world has such areas that would allowed them to exhibit all their paintings, even large part from the collection. Of course, some steps are taken, for example, The Hermitage arranges “open vaults”, but in general it’s all the same does not solve the problem: to embrace the immensity is simply impossible;
- there are purely technical reasons: any paintings should “rest” after a long exposure, especially the schedule;
- some masterpieces of world masters of painting are under vulture – “unproven authenticity.” So, Van Gogh’s painting “Man in a red beret “(portrait of Gauguin, see photo below) for almost 30 years gathering dust in the storerooms of a museum in Amsterdam, until in 2002 modern means of examination did not confirm authorship Dutch master. Even the famous sketch of Raphael to the “Saint family “(see the main photo) has long been considered a copy, until the authorship of the genius of the Renaissance was established again thanks to modern technology. And three paintings by William Turner three times recognized as fakes, until in 2012 their authenticity was finally proven.
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To conclude this short note, let’s say: museums of the world store hundreds of millions of paintings, while in the walls of these temples of art thousands of all kinds of mysteries lurk, but in their vaults more – tens of thousands. The most interesting thing is that some people not even the masterpieces of the great masters of the brush are liked, namely the secrets that surround the paintings. Well, there is something to it: not in vain collectors sometimes pay crazy money not for the picture itself, but for her mysterious story …
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