Graphic arts of P.I. Basmanov in the collection of the State Art Museum of Altai Krai

Abstract

Leningrad painter Pavel Ivanovich Basmanov (1906–1993) was born in the Altai Krai, which was praised by him in tens of thousands paintings. Basmanov is also famous as a collector of Russian and Soviet graphic arts. More than eighty paintings from Basmanov's collection are reposited in the State Art Museum of Altai Krai. There is domestic graphic arts of XIX–XX centuries: watercolors by Boris Kustodiev, unique graphic arts by Elizaveta Kruglikova, lithographies by Lev Bakst, Pavel Kuznetsov, Nikolai Tyrsa, Aleksei Pachomov, Georgiy Vereyskiy, Vladimir Konashevich, Pavel Miturich and Yuriy Vasnetsov, book graphics by Konstantin Rudakov and Leonid Khizhinskiy, prints of Dmitriy Mitrichin, Andrey Goncharov, Vadim Falileev. The article is about relationships, united Pavel Basmanov and creators of works listed above. It also tells us about the history of creation and existence of a number of works from the museum collection of Basmanov and recreates the chronology of receipt of works in the funds of the State Art Museum of Altai Krai.