Landscape Rushing By
Ivan Kliun
Traveling Woman
Liubov Popova
Portrait of Matiushin
Kazimir Malevich
The Jug on a Table
Liubov Popova
Man and Cloud
Solomon Nikritin
Relief
Vladimir Tatlin
Young George Costakis

The Costakis Collection

Welcome to the official website of the George Costakis collection and its archive. Explore the most renowned collection of Russian avant-garde art and learn more about the life of George Costakis. This project was created in partnership with the AZ Museum and developed by the Costakis family.

George Costakis at prospekt Vernadsko Flat
Self-Portrait with Bella near the Stove
Marc Chagall
Untitled (Red Square)
Wassily Kandinsky
Spatial Force Construction
Liubov Popova
Lilies of the Valley
Marc Chagall
Untitled (Green Stripe)
Olga Rozanova
Red Edge
Wassily Kandinsky

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Timeline

1977

George Costakis donated 834 visual art worksto the State Tretyakov Gallery: 142 paintings and 692 graphic works; 51 icons, religious embroideries, and fresco fragments to the Andrey Rublev Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art; and 230 Russian folk toys made of clay, wood, bone, papier-mâché, and other materials to the Soviet Ministry of Culture (which later ceded them to the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve).

TretyakovAndrey RublevSoviet Ministry of Culture
2000

The Greek government purchased from the Costakis family 1,277 works brought by Costakis from Russia which can now be found at the Thessaloniki State Museum of Modern Art.

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2013

The collector’s daughter Aliki Costakis donated over 600 works and archival documents of Anatoly Zverev from George Costakis’ collection to AZ Museum.

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