Collection of George Kostaki
10:36|31.05.2010
The best monument to the collector - the integrity of his collection after his death. But such cases are the exception rather than the rule. For example, George Kostaki, preserved for the world's best examples of Russian avant-garde, 20 years from death which marks this year. Today, one part of his collection in Moscow and one in Thessaloniki, but it is possible that a couple of years, in 2013, they reunited.
To learn how to "junk" turns into millions of Aliki Kastaki, daughter of the legendary collector of Russian avant-garde, George Kostaki, knows very well.
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Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"There were times when he said:" but this garbage wear the Greek ", it was all rubbish. Nobody was collecting. Then they started. But at this time no one "
A grand collection of George Kostaki assembled in Russia from 40's to 70's of last century. Then in the USSR by Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall or Rodchenko, you could buy for a penny, or even to barter for food or building material.
Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"This is the most famous Popov, who on the plywood, and now that Popova was scored in a barn window in Zvenigorod. And he drove off, cut the plywood box scored, and Popov bought "
Family Costakis emigrated from the Soviet Union to Greece in 1977. Most of her collection - 800 paintings - a collector, dreaming of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Russia, donated the Tretyakov Gallery, and the best canvases. The rest was abroad, where in 2000, after the death of George Costakis, the paintings purchased from the heirs of the Greek government and opened in Thessaloniki Museum of Modern Art. In Russia, while the acquisition of masterpieces from the collection Kostaki not interested.
Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"He was ready to give away! Tomorrow, go to the avant-garde museum, and I give this part of the collection, you know. Of course, we would have remained poor, of course. But it's wonderful that we are still decent, and the heirs of all this is not squandered, and it got to the museum "
The Greek government has paid for the remains of his collection of George Kostaki children $ 35 million. The dower Aliki built this magnificent house and helped her daughter to organize a business.
Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"I call it from zero to zero. Man begins to collect on the sly, secretly comes to this, people die, and then it all disappears. And it's almost always "
But the daughter Kostaki Yet, an exception to this rule. Love for the Russian avant-garde and a passion for collecting "inherited" from his father. Today the house Aliki exclusively paintings purchased or donated to her personally. Especially loved the work of Anatoly Zverev.
Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"He's very much I wrote dad asked for my hand when I was 18, he wrote in one day 57 of my portraits. He even wrote his book, "I am very friendly with Kostaki and even wanted to marry his daughter"
Another "holy house Kostaki. Secretaire times "life in Moscow - what little is left after the sale of the collection of Greece. By "Russian avant-garde" has nothing to do, but to the "Russian literature" - direct.
Aliki Costakis, the daughter of George Kostaki:
"The secretary belonged to Alexei Tolstoy, and we bought this secretary in a poor state of his widow
In 2013 declared the Year of Greece in Russia, and still be 100 years since the birth of George Kostaki. Cherished dream of his daughter - an exhibition in Moscow, which would meet the Greek and Russian part of the legendary collection.
Mostoslavsky Alexander, Alexander Rychkov, Alexey Bogdanovsky
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