Pavel Mikhailovich Kondratyev

Pavel Mikhailovich Kondratyev is one of the few artists who managed to connect in their work the lessons of Matters of the Russian avant-garde: Mikhail Matyushin, Pavel Filonov and Kazimir Malevich, with whom he was associated directly. Its biography is typical for the 1920s generation artists - passing through the arts of numerous" Ignii, he was able to further determine for himself then valuable, without which it is impossible to present the Russian art of the post-war era today.
In the edition - the first monographic work about the artist - an attempt to present the evolution of Condratyev"s creativity from the earliest works of the Filon"s Pore to the works of the final series of the Sisters of Mercy "is given. The book publishes his experiments in the book and magazine chart of the 1920s, until recently remaining "in the shadows", as well as travel drawings of the military cycle (1941-1945) One of the most interesting stages in his work is connected with his journey to Chukotka (1950s).
For the first time, materials from private and state archives and collections are published: Meetings of the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, the National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Yaroslavl Art Museum, National Center for Art and Culture named after George Pompidou, Paris