A large retrospective exhibition of the outstanding artist Vitaly Goryaev (1910-1982) will be opened in the Moscow House of Artist on Krymsky Val on January, 17th.
      
      The exposition will present about 1500 works divided into decades: the 1930s, the 1940s, the 1950s, and 1960s. 60 other works – Goryaev’s illustrations for the Soviet comic magazine Crocodile will form a separate block of the show. Rare originals of books with Goryaev’s illustrations will be displayed in show-windows.
      
      It is interesting to note that Vitaly Goryaev became an thanks to good graces of Vladimir Mayakovsky. He once showed his verses to the famed poet; Mayakovsky was not impressed by them at all, but Goryaev’s drawings on the margins amazed him. “Look. You are an artist. You should study” – Vitaly Goryaev later told about his conversation with Mayakovsky.
      
      Goryaev went down in the history of Russian art first of all as a book illustrator. Only few people are acquainted with his paintings.
      The exhibition runs till 30 January 2012.
      
      Source: museum.ru
Author: Vera Ivanova