Irina Antonova (1922-2020)
December 2 2020
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
There have been lots of extended articles in the press celebrating the life of the recently deceased Russian art historian and curator Irina Antonova (1922-2020). Antonova served as Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow between the years 1961-2013 (!) and staged several exhibitions of Western Art in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Her insistence of bringing cubist and impressionist works out of the vaults of Russian museums proved a significant moment in the reappraisal of European art in the country.
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