LUKOIL AND PUSHKIN STATE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS PROMOTE COOPERATON

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

An exhibition titled “The Familiar Unknown” was opened today in Moscow at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, supported by OAO LUKOIL. The exhibition is dedicated to publishing the complete academic catalog “Painting Collection. Germany, Austria and Switzerland of the 15th through the 20th Centuries. Denmark,Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland of the 18th through the 20th Centuries”.

It is the first time in the last 50 years that the museum has arranged such a comprehensive exhibition of pieces by painters of the Northern European schools. The exhibition allows the public to have a completely new look at one of the most significant collections of paintings at the museum in light of the latest research, the results of which are published in the catalog.

LUKOIL and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts have maintained a long-standing partnership. Previously, the Company acquired the piece “Evening Café” by the Spanish impressionist Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa and donated it to the museum, as well as a multi-volume catalog of West European graphic arts. Restoration works at the Art Gallery of the European and American countries of the 19th through the 20th centuries were performed and the exhibition titled “Great Russian Victories Imprinted in Medals and Engravings: 300th Anniversary of the Battle of Poltava” was arranged with the Company’s financial support. LUKOIL also participated in establishing a Center of Aesthetic Education for Children and Youth at the Museum.