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80. COSTAKIS COLLECTIONS Russian Avant-Garde from
1910-1930,
7 September 1996 - 19 January 1997
The Sara Hildén Art Museum presented a comprehensive
exhibition of Avant-garde Russian art from 1910-30. A total
of about 400 works were on display. The Tretyakov Gallery in
Moscow had lent 101 works for the exhibition; the other
works belonged to the Costakis Collection, which is based in
western Europe. The collection was compiled by the
Greek-born George Costakis, who lived first in Russia and
then in the Soviet Union.
George Costakis is one of the most remarkable art
collectors of this century. He was born in Moscow in 1912 to
a wealthy merchant family who lost their fortune in the
Revolution. Costakis worked in the Greek embassy from 1929
and in the Canadian embassy from 1943. He emigrated to the
west in 1978 and died in 1990.
The exhibition was primarily of paintings and drawings. A
total of 55 artists were represented, including Chagall,
Kandinsky, Malevich, Gontcharova, Rozanova, Udaltsova,
Larionov, Rodchenko, El Lissitzky, and an especially large
number of works by Popova, Kljun, Klutsis and the Ender
brothers and sisters.
The works from the Costakis Collection in the Tretyakov
Gallery were shown for the first time together with the
western-based Costakis Collection. Visitors had thus a
unique, historic opportunity to see a selected cross-section
of the collection that Costakis compiled during his lifetime.
The exhibition also gave the viewer a chance to see the wide
variety and spendour of one of the most important phenomena
of modern art, represented in the exhibition through
different styles and stages of development, and through the
artist's initial studies and final works.
Before coming to Tampere the exhibition was first of all
held in Athens in the spring of 1996 and then in Munich in
the summer.
The exhibition was produced by Art Consulting
International Ltd.
Catalogue:
Costakis Collections
1996, 127 pages
Art Consulting International Ltd.
ISBN 952-90-7936-2
Price FIM 80
16,295 visitors attended the exhibition.
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