Events / Exhibitions

04.12.2015 - 04.03.2016

Yeghishe Tadevossian (1870-1936). Retrospective.

On December 4, at 16:00, the National Gallery of Armenia will present the exhibition “YeghisheTadevossian’s retrospective exhibition from the collection of the National Gallery of Armenia and VahagnGrigoryan’s private collection”menia.The exhibition is dedicated to the 145th birth anniversary of the first Armenian master of “plein air” painting.  The distinguished Armenian artist of the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the talented landscape painter of the time, the portraitist and genre painter YeghisheTadevossian has worked in various spheres of fine art including painting, graphic art, mosaic, sculpture, scene painting and book illustration. His teacher V. Polenovwas in close relations with the artist and greatly contributed to his creative style and peculiar world perception.
The artist studied at great Russian artists and professed the leading ideas of the time, he was perfectly familiar with various painting schools and trends as well as with masterpieces of world fine art and obtained his certain place and recognition not only in Armenian fine art but also among the Russian artists of identical ideas.
“Pay attention to Tadevossian’s art”, Vrubel said. In his book “On the Boundary of Two Centuries” Andrei Bely mentioned the name of the Armenian artist among Levitan, Nesterov and Korovin.
Tadevossian comprehensively depicted the surrounding reality and was a greatly talented artist. He was the founder of Armenian plein air painting and was the first Armenian artist whose creations mostly reflected the light, diverse and quivering colouringpeculiar to impressionism.
The artist worked in almost all genres of painting and created more than 800 small-scale studies (the NGA collection includes more than 500 of them) and a number of thematic compositions. He enriched the Armenian fine art with a huge diversity of subjects thus preserving the national trait and self-consciousness of his creativity.
The present exhibition continues the museum tradition of presenting private collections. VahagnGrigoryan spared no effort and managed to save and preserve not only highly-valuable paintings but also numerous archive documents which reveal life and creative activity of artists. Formed during decades his voluminous and rich collection includes valuable canvases of Armenian classic artists. The section of YeghisheTadevossian’s works has a separate place in the collection. The collector obtained the main part of them from the painter’s Jewish neighbor while visiting Tbilisi. The collection is almost wholly displayed at the exhibition for the first time. It includes small-scale studies dated to various periods, more than 80 sketchesand valuable samples of the artist’s letters, rare photos of historic value as well as unique stained glass.
The other section of the exhibition includes rich epistolary and biographical material and memoirs, studies and drawings preserved at the Department of Manuscripts and Documents of the NGA. His wife Justine Neff,Swiss by nationality, left them by will to the museum. The majority of studies were dated during the scientific research at the preparation for the exhibition.



Permanent
exhibition

Pasture

wood, oil
26x32 cm