Paintings from four Russian museums returned from an exhibition in South Korea

The paintings of Russian avant-garde artists, who could not be taken out after the exhibition in Seoul due to the lack of flights, were delivered to RUSSIA, Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said in her TELEGRAM channel.

“After passing the necessary procedures, the items will be sent to museums. The authority to issue permits for the import of objects of the museum fund is vested in the Ministry of Culture, so we control their return to the territory of Russia, ”wrote Lyubimova.

We are talking about the paintings Improvisation No. 217. Gray Oval by Wassily Kandinsky, Suprematism by Kazimir Malevich, Jewish Venus by Mikhail Larionov, Mowers by Natalia Goncharova, and Non-Objective Composition by Alexander Rodchenko.

These paintings belong to four Russian museums - the Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, the Nizhny Novgorod Art Museum, the Krasnoyarsk Art Museum. Surikov and the Primorsky Art Gallery.

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The exhibition "Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian avant-garde: the art of revolution" was held in SOUTH KOREA from December 31, 2021 to April 17, 2022.

On April 19, the organizers of the exhibition announced that they could not take some of the paintings out of Seoul due to the lack of suitable flights. “Due to the nature of the cargo, we cannot use passenger aircraft, only cargo ones. But since Korean Air and other airlines do not currently operate cargo flights to Russia, sending by plane is difficult, and we are looking for other options, ”an employee of the Hanguk Ilbo corporation, which organizes the exhibition, told RIA Novosti.

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On March 15, the South Korean airline Korean Air announced the suspension of passenger flights to Moscow and Vladivostok and cargo flights to Europe via Moscow until the end of April. The press service of the airline explained that they made such a decision "due to concerns about the operation of local airports and security in connection with the situation in Ukraine."