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Канченджунга, Nicholas Roerich, 1936
Nicholas Roerich, portraitNicholas RoerichRussian, 1874–1947

Канченджунга

1936 · Painting · 30.4 × 45.4 cm

May one see it?

Unknown

Tretyakov Gallery

Moscow, Russia

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

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About the painting

In the museum's own words — in Russian

Канченджунга (Канченджанга) – горный массив в Гималаях, на границе Индии и Непала, в состав которого входит третья по высоте точка планеты (8586 метров). Картина написана Рерихом в долине Кулу в Гималаях и в 1936 году отправлена в Русский культурно-исторический музей (РКИМ) в Праге, где украсила зал, посвященный творчеству прославленного мастера. Валентин Булгаков (1886–1966), директор РКИМ, в переписке с Николаем Рерихом поделился своими впечатлениями от его новых произведений: «Я пережил странное чувство при получении Ваших этюдов. Когда я, с помощью заведующего канцелярией университета, вскрывал ящик с картинами и впервые приподнял одну из картин, положенных лицом вместе, мне показалось, что из ящика вырвались лучи света: так заблестели сразу вершины Эвереста и Канченджунги. Это было почти физическое ощущение, которого я не забуду…»

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Рерих видел Канченджунгу, будучи в Дарджилинге в начале и по завершении Центрально-Азиатской экспедиции (1923–1928). Позднее, вспоминая путешествия по Индии, он исполнил несколько произведений под названием «Канченджунга» в разной цветовой гамме и бо́льших форматах.

Художественное и литературное наследие мастера взаимосвязаны, в своих статьях и книгах Рерих много раз восхищался великолепием Гималайских гор, подкрепляя повествование фрагментами местных сказаний. Внутренний мир художника и мыслителя всегда был обращен к высотам, не только физическим, но и духовным, к чистоте устремлений и помыслов он призывал и в своих произведениях.

«И когда мы видим прекрасный снежный пик, мы понимаем дух праздника, потому что почитание Красоты является основой возвышенного чувства… Много прекрасных легенд связано с этой горой», – писал художник о Канченджунге в очерке «Сокровище снегов» (1928).

Tretyakov Gallery

Particulars

1936 · aged 62
18741947
Accession number
Ж-521

In the catalog

PaintingsTemperaRussian paintingModernism20th century

Sources

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  • Image: Tretyakov Gallery — © State Tretyakov Gallery

Meanwhile, in the life of Nicholas Roerich

The whole life
  1. 28 April – 30 May 1934

    The Manchurian expedition: from Seattle to Harbin

    On 28 April 1934 Roerich and his elder son set out from Seattle for Yokohama: Henry Wallace, the US Secretary of Agriculture, who had befriended him in 1930, sends him to Manchuria and northern China to collect seeds of plants that protect the fertile layer of soil. In Japan he is received at the highest government level, and on 30 May the scientific part of the expedition begins in Harbin.

  2. 1934–1935

    Results of the expedition: grasses, diaries, Stipa roerichii

    The routes are the Greater Khingan range and the Bargan plateau (1934) and the Gobi, Ordos and Alashan deserts (1935). In 17 months Roerich writes 222 essays for his “Diary Leaves”; about 300 species of drought-resistant grasses are found, 2,000 parcels of seeds are sent to America, and one grass unknown to science is named in his honour — Stipa roerichii; Secretary Wallace will later report that almost all the seeds are of little or no value.

  3. 15 April 1935

    The Roerich Pact is signed at the White House

    The United States and the 20 other nations of the Pan-American Union sign the Roerich Pact, an early international instrument protecting cultural property and the outcome of his idea of Pax Cultura, the “Red Cross” of art and culture.

  4. June 1935

    A Chicago Tribune scandal and the break with Wallace

    In June 1935 the Chicago Tribune reports military preparations by the expedition near the Mongolian border, and Secretary Wallace breaks with the Roeriches, fearing for his reputation in the eyes of the voters. The expedition is ended early in Shanghai on 21 September 1935.

  5. August 1935

    The break with Louis Horch

    From 1929 the commercial ventures of Roerich and Horch go badly, and the scandal around the Manchurian expedition undermines Horch's once boundless trust; in August 1935 a crisis breaks out and Horch finally slips out of Roerich's sway.

  6. 1938

    The Roerich Museum closes; lawsuits and debts

    After a series of scandals, seizures of property and lawsuits, the Roerich Museum and the Institute are closed by 1938 and the building passes under Horch's control. Horch prompts a tax inspection, which finds that Roerich has failed to pay $48,000 in income tax, and wins a $200,000 lawsuit against him; Roerich will never again be able to return to the United States.

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Overseas Guests, Nicholas Roerich, 1901

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1901 · Tretyakov Gallery

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Rostov the Great

1903 · Tretyakov Gallery

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Ilya Repin

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Moscow, Zubovskaya Square, Study, 1916

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