Raguvėlės dvaro paveikslai Nacionalinio Mikalojaus Konstantino Čiurlionio dailės muziejaus rinkiniuose

ENThe merits of graphs Komars art collection occurrence and formation depends to Konstantinas Komaras (1864-1940), who loved fashionable oriental works of art of the 19th century and who used to collect the valuable works. The part of this collection occurred in M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art during the period of tumultuous historical revolutions. After 14th June, 1940, when the Soviets occupied Lithuania, there the real estate nationalization started. On 20th July there was adopted Culture Monuments Protection Act and Cultural Monument Protection Institution (CMPI) was established. The priority field of activity was the cultural values taking into inventory and transferring these values to museums. In July of the same year CMPI formed the commission to expropriate estates values. One of such commissions with the members the painters Vincas Dilka (1912-1997) and Povilas Puzi-nas (1907-1967) expropriated Raguvėlė estate values on 23rd - 24th August, 1940. Raguvėlė estate values of art were expropriated, the acts were written and having no possibility to take them out the values were left in the estate with a list addressed to nominal estate manager Vladislavas Komaras in order he would keep and preserve these estate values. On 21st November, 1941 art treasures were transported to the Museum of Vytautas the Great. When the time for expropriation the values was approaching and when expropriated works of art were preserved in one of Raguvėlė manor rooms, a part of the art treasures was robbed, sold, exported abroad. Only small part of the real collection was brought to M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, therefore it survived until nowadays.In the list of the treasures preserved in the estate we could managed to count 73 objects, 50 of these art objects were brought to the museum. Currently, there were identified 30 exhibits. Painting kits include 15 oil paintings and one watercolor, so in total 16 works from Raguvėlė estate. Chronological range of collection is from the 17th century until the the first half of the 20th century. The themes of art works quite accurately reflect the education and hobbies of the graphs (natural sciences, horses). The geography of authors characterizes the graphs Komars family relationship with Russia and Ukraine as well as artistic interests with Italy, Poland, Germany and France. The collection consists of six portraits (graphs, medical science persons), lour religious-themed works, two landscapes, two canvas depicting horsemen by Aleksandras Orlovskis (1777-1832), one animalistic painting and one still life. Research and comparative work has helped to identify the girl in the portrait, hitherto known as the Girl with red necklace. She is Katerina Koma-raitė (1909-1983). The study and archival materials have helped to identify the portrait author J. Lialikova (she created at the end of the 19th c. - in the first half of the 20th c). Regrettably, due to devastating wars and Soviet ideology, the information about the paintings authors, portrayed persons has been lost. It is not clear what part of the collection permanently disappeared, but we know that it was definitely valuable. Yet many collections of history and attribution questions remain unanswered, we hope that over time the majority of the collection history riddles will be puzzled out.