On the 100th anniversary collector George Costakis. Opening of the Hall of the inform

[Vladimir]

Today in the Tretyakov Gallery was a solemn event in honor of the 100th anniversary of Costacis. Came the children, gathered friends, collectors and artists. Among the guests - Sarabyanov, Dudakov, Nemuhin, Pal'min, Infante, etc. More than 100 people, four television cameras and reporters.

 Opened a memorial reference room, without a separate exhibition. After a couple of years, there are plans to show together Russian and Greek part of the collection Costacis together. They promise to build catalog-reason.

In the meantime, what sort of a separate exhibition. In the Tretyakov Gallery, and so much of the avant-garde side - it Costacis. And not only Suprematist and abstract.

Have you ever noticed that ominous in its joie de vivre of Lenin "Uprising" Clement Red'ko - it is a gift Costacis? Infernal "troika" ("The court of the people") Solomon Nikritin - also Costacis. In addition to Popova, Chashnik and Malevich, meeting Costacis exposure due to the presence of works Guro von Jawlensky, Filonov, etc. One only Tretyakov Costacis presented about 800 papers. Despite the fact that his icons are gone in Rublev museum, folk art - the museum Tsaritsyno, a part of the avant-garde of the sixties, and he took to Greece. Costacis died in 1990. Costacis collecting avant-garde in the period 1946 to 1977 (he emigrated in 1978). That is, for him things 1920s and 1930s were almost contemporary art, but forbidden, persecuted, unsafe. Such is the enormous project, a huge collection of largely spared the whole epoch in Russian art. Collector name has become a legend, he is known throughout the world as a great visionary and ascetic. Even without any registered funds of the same name and museums. It is not often that happens.


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[Vladimir]

That's what Red'ko Costacis hid in the nursery.
Showed a picture of his only - away from sin.
Daughters say that once the Finns were not allowed to show it on the show.
Whether for aesthetic reasons, or as a sign of great appreciation of Lenin - who will decide them.

[Кирилл Сызранский]

Сообщение от Vladimir

That's what Red'ko Costacis hid in the nursery.

Now on permanent display in the Tretyakov Gallery - a hit, it provides the excursion.

[Магнолия]

Сообщение от Vladimir; 2661301"

Costacis

George Dionisovich Costacis (Greek Γεώργιος Κωστάκης; July 5, 1913, Moscow, Russian Empire - March 9, 1990, Greece) - Russian art collector of Greek origin. The largest collector of Russian avant-garde.

Born in 1913 in Moscow into a family of Greek merchant. Had the Greek citizenship. Working in the 1930s as a driver at the Greek Embassy, ​​drove diplomatic staff in antique shops and gradually he became involved in collecting.

I've been collecting old and the Dutch, and porcelain, and Russian silver and carpets and fabrics. But I kept thinking that if I continue in the same vein, there is nothing new in art does not get it. All that I have collected, and it was already in the Louvre and the Hermitage, yes, perhaps, in every great museum in any country, and even in private collections. Continuing in the same vein, I could get rich ... but not anymore. But I wanted to do something extraordinary. One day I accidentally got in a Moscow apartment ... There's the first time I saw two or three canvas garde, one of them - Olga Rozanova ... Works made a great impression on me. <...> So I bought a picture of the avant-garde, brought them home and put up near the Dutch. And there was a feeling that I was sharing a room with shuttered windows, and now they are opened and they rushed into the sun. Since that time, I decided to part with all that time to gather and purchase only the vanguard. It happened in 1946.

Since 1940, he has been a driver in the British Embassy. He then moved to the Canadian embassy, ​​where for 37 years, from 1942 to 1979 he worked as assistant warden. Servant in charge of the local Soviet embassy: chauffeurs, gardeners, cooks and maids, daily reporting to the most junior officer of the embassy.

Amassed a large collection of paintings.

In 1973 he traveled the world with a series of lectures on Russian art, including 9 October 1973 delivered a lecture at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In 1979 he moved with his family from the Soviet Union to Greece. In this case, a smaller part of the collection had brought with him, was forced to give most of the Tretyakov Gallery.

In 1988 he was treated in Stockholm, because it does not trust the Greek hospitals, as well as the Soviet one. He died in 1990. After his death, the Greek state has purchased the collection Costacis and placed it in a Founded in 1997, the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki).

http://pomnipro.ru/memorypage34995/biography

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That's what Red'ko Costacis hid in the nursery. Showed a picture of his only - away from sin . Daughters say that once the Finns were not allowed to show it on the show .

Irina Antonova :

Every day of the show for me began with a call from a man of the Central Committee , who asked me : " Irina , what is the balance ? " What is the balance? This ratio realists and formalists . Here we did not score Malevich Gerasimov. I replied that everything is in order . And then went to the hall , and I snapped the staff " Irina , and let's show Red'ko ?" I replied, " What Red'ko ! ? All zagremit if we add it . " After all of this exhibition, all declined - and the Tretyakov Gallery and the Academy of Arts .

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[Vladimir]

Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

"What Red'ko!?
All zagremit if we add it ».

Red'ko - lump.
But I was more surprised by how they balanced with Luchishkin "The ball flew away"?
The same thing will be more powerful Munch, all easily chip away everything.

[uriart]

Magnolia, yesterday, on the TV channel "Culture " have shown a great movie about Costacis .
These facts are interesting there told.
As one KGBeshnik told him that the KGB has a mafia that is interested in his paintings.
As his apartment and then robbed him also called and said that he himself , in Chiharu , brought his paintings , and now says that it had been robbed .
In short , hunted man in quietly .
In general, as is usually done in the USSR .

[Eriksson]

Сообщение от Magnolia

In 1988, was treated in Stockholm,

In 1983, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art Moderna museet was an exhibition from the collection of Russian avant-garde Costacis.
It released a large catalog of the exhibition.

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November 12, in the Tretyakov gallery opens the exhibition [URL="http://www.tretyakovgallery.ru/ru/calendar/exhibitions/exhibitions4488/"]"Exit from the USSR razresiti@ the 100th anniversary of the legendary collector of Russian avant-garde George Costakis.
For the first time since the transfer of the Tretyakov gallery in 1977 the most part, meeting the audience will show the famous collection so complete and versatile - what made her kostakis. Collector Valery Dudakov told Anna Savitskaya about his meetings with kostakis, his principles of gathering, intuition, relationships with artists, critics and power.
All work that illustrates this article, submitted by George Costakis Tretyakov gallery.

"kostakis himself was stunned by the Russian avant-garde - that opened and gathered"