The permanent exhibition of the Khimki Art Gallery features a collection of paintings by Russian realist artists of the middle of the 19th — the first half of the 20th century amassed by the researcher and art collector Sergey Nikolayevich Gorshin.
Formed over more than 50 years, the collection contains over 300 works created by more than 120 renowned artists. Some of its most valuable artifacts were created by the representatives of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions, academic painters, members of the associations “Mir iskusstva” (World of Art), the Union of Russian Artists, “Blue Rose”, and “Knave of Diamonds”, as well as Soviet realist painters of the 1930s–1950s.
Sergey Gorshin preferred landscapes. He was interested in the depiction of ordinary human habitats — forest edges, steppes, riverbanks, villages, gardens, and cities. This was one of the most important criteria which influenced the development of his collection.
The exhibition houses
authentic paintings and studies by renowned artists, including Ivan Aivazovsky,
Lev Lagorio, Konstantin Makovsky, Vasily Polenov, Alexey Savrasov, Ivan
Shishkin, Ivan Yendogurov, Isaac Levitan, Apollinariy Vasnetsov, David Burliuk,
Robert Falk, and many others.
Exhibits are marked with AR stickers for identification purposes.
