The Collection
The Collection brings together the work of 180 painters, many of whom were teachers at the most important schools in the country and who have been recognized with the highest distinctions by the state and the Russian Academy of Arts.
This Collection covers a period between 1911 and 2003, and is represented by the themes of Nature, Figure, Costumbrismo, Landscape and Socialist Realism.
In 2000, nearly 200 works were selected to be presented by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in an Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, under the name “Russia, 20th Century”.
The Cultural Programme of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union in 2010 included the Exhibition of this Collection in Barcelona.
This Collection is considered by both the official bodies of the Russian Federation and the Tretyakov Museum, or the former technical director of the Prado Museum, Professor Matías Díaz Padrón (1935-2022), as an important recovery of 20th century Russian painting, as shown in the following paragraph extracted from the Scientific Report of the Tretyakov Museum, prepared by Historians and Conservators Vera Golóbina and Tatiana Karpova.
The Dolores Tomás Collection is particularly valuable and can be considered a “Collection of Collections” because it includes a large number of works representing different periods and trends in Russian painting. The former belong to the pre-revolutionary era, at the beginning of the 1900s, and the latter to the 2000s, revealing the history of her painting as fully as possible.
Filmmakers use the term “extroverted nature” when the sun sets at dusk and there are only a few minutes left to shoot the necessary scene. Dolores Tomás managed to capture this “extroverted nature” of Russian painting, to hear the “voices” of the masters and to preserve their works, passing them on to new generations.”
DONATION
In July 2017, the donation by Dolores Tomás of 58 paintings to the Tretyakov, Rosizo, Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd Museums was signed at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Madrid, in the presence of a representative of the Russian Ministry of Culture, Ambassadors, Minister Counsellor and attachés, Director of the Prado Museum and the Surikov Foundation.
In November of the same year, the official presentation of the Donation took place at a solemn ceremony at the Tretyakov Museum, in the presence of the Ministers of Culture and Ambassadors of both countries, as well as the Directors of the Museums receiving the works.
