Tretyakov Gallery
Executive summary by darmansjah
Tretyakov Gallery is
an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, the foremost depository of Russian fine art
in the world.
The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow
merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his
day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum
of national art. In 1892, Tretyakov presented his already famous collection of
approximately 2,000 works (1,362 paintings, 526 drawings, and 9 sculptures) to
the Russian nation.
The façade of the gallery building was designed by the
painter Viktor Vasnetsov in a peculiar Russian fairy-tale style. It was built
in 1902–04 to the south from the Moscow Kremlin. During the 20th century, the
gallery expanded to several neighboring buildings, including the 17th-century
church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi.
The collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging
from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's Trinity to the monumental
Composition VII by Wassily Kandinsky and the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich.
In 1977 the Gallery kept a significant part of the George
Costakis collection.
In May 2012, the Tretyakov Art Gallery played host to the
prestigious FIDE World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Boris
Gelfand as the organizers felt the event would promote both chess and art at
the same time.
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