Official ceremony of donating Boris Zaborov’s and Nikolai Duchits’s paintings to the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus

On 17 February 2009, an official ceremony of handing over La grange (A Barn), 2008, painting to the National Art Museum will be attended by Sergei Martynov, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The artist Boris Zaborov, who was born in Belarus and lives now in France, is expected to be present at the ceremony.

Also, two paintings by the Belarusian artist Mikalay Duchits Dubki  (Oaklings), (1953) and Etude (A Study), (1949) will be donated to the collection of the National Art Museum. These paintings have been given as gift by the art  collector B.Klionsky through the Belarusian Embassy in Israel.

For a number of years the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and the Belarusian diplomatic missions have been engaged in identifying historical and cultural heritage of Belarus, happened to be abroad due to various reasons, and in returning it to the country of origin.

In 2005 some facsimile reproductions of rare photos and historical documents regarding a Paris period in the life of Walenty Wankowicz, an artist of the early 19 century, in 2007 three engravings by the artist and composer Napoleon Orda, two paintings by Pyotr Sergievich and a replica of Radziwill’s map of 1613 were donated to the National Art Museum.

The ceremony will be held in the National Arts Museum on 17 February 2009 at 4 p.m. The media interested to do the coverage are required to arrive no later than 3.45 p.m.

Boris Zaborov (b. Minsk, 1935), a painter and graphic artist. He was born to the family of the painter Abram Zaborov. He studied at the Minsk Art School, Academy of Arts in Leningrad, later moved to Moscow where he graduated from the Surikov Arts Institute. Since 1961, he lived in Minsk, where he became a known graphic artist, an illustrator of Belarusian and Russian classics. In 1981, he immigrated to France. His personal exhibitions enjoyed great success all over the world (at Patrice Trigano Gallery in Paris, Mathildenhohe Museum in Germany, Claude Bernard Gallery in New York, Art Point Gallery in Tokyo, Pushkin State Fine Art Museum, and the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, The State Russian Museum in St.Petersburg). Leading world museums acquired his paintings (including the Pushkin State Fine Art Museum, Albertina Museum in Austria, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in England, Centre for the Contemporary Arts of Lower Normandy in France). Numerous catalogues and monographs, devoted to the creative work of the artist have been published.

Mikalay Duchits (b.Lubcha, Hrodna Region, 1896 – d. 1980), a painter, graphic artist. He studied at the St. Petersburg School of the Society for Promotion of Arts. He was active in  easel painting, concentrating on  landscapes, and in graphics. Since 1925 he participated in art exhibitions. Today his paintings are in the collections of the National Art Museum of Belarus, other museums, of the Belarusian Union of Artists.

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