Exhibition ‘Age of calm and anxiety’ by Alexander Labas

The SAAS Gallery opens the exhibition of Alexander Labas (1900-1983), one of the most original and talented Russian artists of the XX century and an outstanding figure in the Russian avant-garde art movement.

The name of the exhibition refers to one of the most famous works of the classic of English poetry, Wystan Auden ‘The Age of Anxiety’, which represented the XX century and whose contemporary Alexander Labas was (born in 1900, died in 1983). Nevertheless, the ‘century’ of Labas is not only an anxiety but also calmness, peacefulness and breath of art. 

The foundation of the artist’s heritage selected some works that represent different time periods: early graphic works of 1920s and 1930s, works of the period of World War II, peaceful fifties, swinging sixties and fantastic seventies.

Alexander Labas is the artist whose works are kept in the museums MoMA (New York), J. Paul Getty Museum, The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The Pushkin Museum (Moscow), The Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), and other museums and private collections. In England, his works had been exhibited since 1930s. Last time masterpieces by this artist could be seen at the exhibition Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932 in The Royal Academy of Arts in 2017.