The exhibition “Čiurlionis and His Time in Lithuanian Art” took place from April 30 to August 8, 2010, at the KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Estonia.

The exhibition featured 55 works by M. K. Čiurlionis:

“Night. Etude” (Čt 202), 1904/5
“Mountain” (Čt 174), 1906
The cycle “Daybreak" (Čt 197-198), 1906
“Summer” (Čt 97), 1907
“Summer” (Čt 79), 1907
“Winter Motif” (Čt 83), 1907
“Nature Etude” (Čt 93), 1906
“The Sea at Night” (Čt 199), 1906
The “Sparks” cycle (Čt 72-74), 1906
“Sailing Boats” (Čt 80), 1906
“Mists” (Čt 94), 1906
“Flowers” (Čt 81), 1906/7
“Spring Motif” (Čt 77), 1907
Triptych “Raigardas” (Čt 85–87), 1907
“Evening” (Čt 176), 1907
“The Second Exhibition of Lithuanian Art (Bell)” (Čt 169), 1908
Curtain sketch for the opera “Jūratė” (Čt 208), 1908
Diptych “Prelude. Fugue” (Čt 88–89), 1908
Cycle “Sonata no. 5 (Sonata of the Sea)” (Čt 12–14), 1908
“City” from the series of sketches “City” (Čt 217), 1908/9
“The Offering” (Čt 172), 1909
“Altar” (Čt 1), 1909
“Wayside Crosses of Žemaitija” (Čt 98), 1909
“Fairy Tale (Fairy Tale of the Kings)” (Čt 35), 1909
“Fairy Tale (Castle Fairy Tale)” (Čt 6), 1909
“Thor” (Čt 17), 1909
“Fairy Tale (Fairy Tale of the Kings)” (Čt 166), 1908
“Rex” (Čg 134), 1908/9
“Prelude (Sunrise)” (Čg 132), 1908
“Vignette (Boats)” (Čg 138), 1909
“The Offering” (Čg 118), 1908
“Leafless Tree” (Čg 154), 1905/6
“Bell Tower” (Čg 163), 1906
“Town (Towers)” (Čg 131), 1906
“A Snow-Covered Cottage (Winter)” (Čg 117), 1905
“The Offering” (Čg 153), 1908
Vignette for the Lithuanian folk song “Run, the Mowings” (Čg 142), 1909
Vignette for the Lithuanian folk song “Oi, the Woods, the Woods” (Čg 143), 1909
“Drawings of Wayside Crosses” (Čg 17, p. 1), 1909
“Sketch of Sagittarius and Scorpio Compositions for the 12-Painting Cycle ‘Zodiac’” (Čg 40), 1906
“Sketches of Compositions for Capricorn and Pisces for the 12-Painting Cycle ‘Zodiac’” (Čg 41), 1906
“Sketch of the Scherzo for Sonata I (Sonata of the Sun)” (Čg 58), 1907
Sketches for the triptych “The Prince’s Journey” (Čg 39), 1906/7
“Sketch for a Composition (Fear)” (Čg 32, p. 2), 1904/6
Sketches for the cycle “City” (Čg 37, p. 1), 1906/7
Postcard featuring the composition “The Rustling of the Forest” (Čl 35), 1903
Postcard featuring the composition “Serenity” (Čl 31), 1903

The exhibition also featured works by M. K. Čiurlionis’s contemporaries, including such notable artists as Adomas Varnas, Petras Kalpokas, Jonas Šileika, Kajetonas Sklerius, Justinas Vienožinskis, Mstislav Dobužinskis, and Antanas Žmuidzinavičius. In total, the exhibition comprised 136 works.

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Čiurlionis and His Time in Lithuanian Art

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