In this and the next five posts, I will put up photos of Russian art that are on view in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

As stated in an earlier post here, this gallery only exhibits 20th century Russian art.

Vladimir Tatlin, “A model”, 1913. He was a founder of Russian Constructivism.

On display are Russian avant-garde masters from the 1900s-1920s who are famous internationally, such as Kasimir Malevich, Vasily Kandinsky,  Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov and Liubov Popova.

This section is titled from cubism to geometric abstraction.

According to the museum guide, the main result of adaptation of Cubism in Russia was Constructivism and Suprematism.

By Lyubov Popova.

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This could have been a piece by Léger.

and this …

There is a piece – Over The Town by Marc Chagall.

And a surprising detail of this painting, on the lower left corner is …

Another by Marc Chagall.

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Cezanne-esque, it is by Ilya Mashkov painted in 1910.

 

There are so many more pieces by artists who are not well-recognized in the west, and they are worth seeing but not easily seen.

More paintings to come in the next few posts.