State Tretyakov Gallery
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Moscow Art Gallery Guide
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[edit] Description
State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the most famous art museums in the world and the first public Art gallery in Russia. Moscow merchant and great art expert Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898) founded it. In 1856, he bought first paintings for his collection, and since that time on, he enriched it with the very best works by contemporary painters. The collector’s brother, Sergey Tretyakov, was also a connoisseur of art who collected pictures not only by Russian, but also by French and Dutch painters. The Gallery was situated at the expanded Tretyakov brothers' mansion in Lavrushinsky Pereulok. In 1892 Pavel Tretyakov presented his collection, already famous by that time, to the city of Moscow.
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Today the collection contains more than 125 000 works of art: Ancient Russian art of the 11th – 17th centuries and paintings, graphics and sculpture of the 18th – early 20th centuries, located in two separate buildings.
[edit] Tretyakov Gallery at Lavrushinsky Pereulok
Russian art of the 11th – early 20th century are on the show in Gallery's historical building at Lavrushinsky Pereulok. These are: the collection of precious stones, icons in gold and silver revetments and metal articles from Moscow churches, demolished in 1920s–30s by the Soviet government; the most complete and high-quality collections of Medieval Russian icon painting (including the famous icon "Trinity" by Andrey Rublev) and works by well-known Russian artists of the 18th – early 19th century.
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Canvases by other outstanding Russian painters, not only members of Peredvizhniki group, are also presented in the Tretyakov Gallery. For example, art works by Vasily Vereschagin, recollect the truth and the horror of war, representing not battle scenes themselves, but showing battlefields afterwards, what forces us to think about the cruelty of war strongly. Canvases of the world famous painter of sea-scapes Ivan Aivazovsky may also be found here.
[edit] Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val
New building of the Gallery at Krymsky Val houses a unique exhibition of the 20th century art, including paintings by world-famous Russian avant-garde artists of the 1900s - early 1920s (Kazimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky, Mark Shagal and others); art of "social realism" of 1930-50s and "the second wave" of Russian avant-garde of 1960-90s. This department boasts the renowned and much-talked-of "Black Square" by Malevich. The advent of this abstract composition in 1915 gave birth to art-critics.
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