Donations

“Over 2 day period, the Tretyakov Gallery was receiving one of the largest and most important gifts of art that any museum has received in the 20th century. The quality of the work was impeccable. In terms of quantity, this collection was significantly ahead of the famous collections of Gertrude and Leo Stein or Peggy Guggenheim. " (From the preface by Frederic Starr to the book "Russian Avant-garde: The Collection of George Costakis").

In 2000, the Greek Government bought 1,277 avant-garde works from the Costakis family (at well below market prices) and donated them to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (MOMus). In 2013, Aliki Kostaki, daughter of Georgy Dionisovich, donated to the AZ Museum in Moscow more than 600 works by Anatoly Zverev, as well as numerous archives from the collection of her father, George Costakis.

In 1966 George Costakis donated a painting by Kees van Dongen, called "Spanish Woman", 1911 to The Pushkin State Museum.

At the end of a brilliant tour of exhibitions in the USA, Canada and Europe, George Сostakis presented the work of Lyubov Popova "Birsk" in gratitude for the uncountable work done by the Guggenheim Museum.