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Tretyakov masterpieces will soon be ready to wear

Tretyakov masterpieces will soon be ready to wear
Scenery sketch House of King Berendey by Viktor Vasnetsov for Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Snow Maiden (Image: State Tretyakov Gallery / Radical Chic)

12 July 2016

Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery has teamed up with fashion brand Radical Chic to present a collaborative range of silk scarves featuring paintings from the gallery’s collection.

Six paintings have been chosen to be reproduced as scarves: the scenery sketch House of King Berendey by Viktor Vasnetsov for Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Snow Maiden, Moscow. Red Square by Wassily Kandinsky, a costume sketch from Oscar Wilde’s play Salome by Léon Bakst, Cafe Chantant by George Yakulov, Asters by Aristarkh Lentulov and Formula of the Universe by Pavel Filonov.

The scarves will be available to buy at the Tretyakov Gallery and the Radical Chic shop.

Source: Afisha (in Russian)