MOSCOW, June 5. Paintings by Kustodiev, Benois, Petrov-Vodkin, Falk, Konchalovsky and other masterpieces from the Yerevan Museum of Russian Art and the collection of the family of the famous collector Aram Abrahamyan will be shown at an exhibition in the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Tretyakov Gallery reported. 
“”Total in the exhibition “Moscow – Yerevan – Moscow. Museum of Russian Art” 60 works of painting and graphics,” noted in the Tretyakov Gallery.
The exhibition opens with a section of graphic works of the late 19th – early 20th centuries from the collection of the Yerevan Museum of Russian Art. Here you can see works by Nicholas Roerich “Cloud”, “Sign” and “Archaic Landscape”, which Abrahamyan considered among his particularly successful acquisitions. Also presented are watercolors and graphic works by other artists from the “World of Art” circle: Cimmerian landscapes by Voloshin and Bogaevsky, “Versailles. Pool” by Benois, works by Serebryakova, Sudeikin, Sapunov, Petrov-Vodkin. 
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The second room contains mainly paintings from the collection of Aram Abrahamyan (now the Museum of Russian Art, Yerevan). “The paintings in this hall demonstrate the variability of artistic styles in the art of the first third of the 20th century and the creative quests of the masters of that time,” noted the Tretyakov Gallery. Here visitors will see, in particular, works by Golovin, Kustodiev, Yuon, Tarkhov, created at the beginning of the 20th century, and landscapes by Falk and Williams of the 1940s–1950s.
A separate block of the exhibition, a kind of epilogue to the story about Abrahamyan’s collecting activities, consists of the works of the sixties – “Night in Soligalich” (1968–1981) and “Winter Evening” (1963) by Andronov, “Two figures” (1968) Popkova.
“In the halls of the State Tretyakov Gallery, two parts of Abrahamyan’s collection met for the first time – belonging to the Museum of Russian Art in Yerevan and owned by his family, which makes it possible to introduce the Moscow viewer to the most valuable collection of the doctor-collector,” the State Tretyakov Gallery emphasized. 
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Aram Yakovlevich Abrahamyan is a world-famous urologist, Doctor of Science, professor, laureate of the USSR State Prize, Hero of Socialist Labor, author of more than 100 scientific works. A native of Tiflis, after graduating from high school he went to the Caucasian front of the First World War. In 1918 he entered the Transcaucasian Medical Institute. He continued his studies in Moscow, where he moved in 1920. In the capital, he visited museums and exhibitions and moved in the artistic community. The beginning of Abrahamyan’s active collecting activity dates back to the mid-1950s – 1960s. The acquisition of paintings continued until the 1980s.
Around 1980, Aram Yakovlevich decided to donate most of his collection to Yerevan. A separate building was allocated for this gift, in which the Museum of Russian Art was opened in 1984 (collection of Professor A.Ya. Abrahamyan). Until the end of his days, the collector continued to replenish the museum’s funds. The other part of the collection, including some of the professor’s new acquisitions, remained in his house (now the collection of A.Ya. Abrahamyan’s family).
The exhibition will last until August 11, 2024.
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