Genri Mur v Ermitazhe

de Henry Moore

Henry Moore fought in World War I, but World War II, in particular, the Blitz of London, he experienced as an onlooker and, like other Brits who were not evacuated, a potential victim (his studio in London was damaged by bombs). This catalogue of an exhibition of works from the Henry Moore Foundation opened at the Hermitage on May 6, just before Victory Day, and commemorates the mutual ordeal of those in England who endured Nazi bombardment of their cities from September 1940 until May 1941 and those in Leningrad who endured blockade and bombardment from September 1941 until March 1944 [VER]. Moore would spend nights in the metro-bomb shelters and do his drawings from notes made upon exiting the shelters. Also published are drawings by a Russian architect A. S. Nikol{u2019}skii, who in the first months of the blockade worked at designing camouflage for vital places in Leningrad and then used his talent as a draftsman to record scenes in the besieged city, including shelters in the Hermitage Museum, where he himself stayed. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.