YURI KUGACH - THE BLAIRSDEN MANSION SHOW HOUSE EXHIBITION: THE ATRIUM, SPACE 30 During Mansions in May, 2014 (May 1st through 31st), The moonscape painting by Russian Realism master Yuri Kugach will be displayed as part of the Blairsden Mansion's An Art Collector's Sanctuary exhibition. Also on view will be a work by artist Mikhail Kugach, the son the famous patriarch with his wife Olga Svetchenaya as part of Russia's most famous artist family. Please also visit or contact James Yarosh Associates Fine Art Gallery regarding additional works on view by the artist and available through the gallery.

Yuri Kugach, "Full Moon," 2007, 19 1/2in x 27 1/4in, oil on board.

Yuri Kugach (1917-2013)
"Full Moon" was painted by Yuri in 2007, then 90-years-old. It is a moonscape above the water. Mikhail shared that his father, considered to be one of the most important artists in Russia, had completed a series of paintings that just blew away his peers and followers, who perhaps thought Yuri's advanced age had caused him to lose his artistic luster. The moonscape paintings, like the epic story paintings of the artist's past, now offer the night impression of the artist, painting in the darkness of night. Profoundly, we are asked to imagine the artist with his palette, black with night, as is his canvas, working alone, at the end of his life, staring at the heavens and working by the dim moonlight's reflection, poised next to the rippling, endless sea with just a small fire still burning in the distance, otherwise enveloped in the night's darkness and the heavens above. In this way, the work offers not only a subtle, luminous moonscape, but also a metaphor serving as the artist's self-portrait facing mortality.

Mikhail Kugach, "Near To Evening," 2007, 19 3/8in x 27 3/8in, Oil on Canvas

"Only art—paintings—can make the dumb speak and the deaf begin to hear." - Mikhail Kugach