Saryan, Hovnatanyan, Shagal, Levitan: Joint Exhibit in Moscow

In September 2010 the Moscow-based Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts will host an exhibition of the works by Armenian and Russian artists of the 17-20th centuries, the Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Armenia Hasmik Harutyunyan told Tert.am.

Titled Two Colors of the Rainbow: Reflexion of Two Fortunes the exhibition will take place from September 13 and will last three months.

The exhibit will include canvases kept in Armenian museums and made by Armenian and Russian artists. The National Gallery of Armenia will provide the exhibit with 93 works, while the rest 10 will be provided by the Saryan House-Museum, the Ervand Kochar Museum and the Museum of Russian Art.

Harutyunyan also said that the visitors will have the chance to get familiar with the pieces of the Armenian artists Hakob Hovnatanyan, Hovhannes Aivazovsky, Gevorg Bashinjaghyan, Martiros Saryan, as well as works of Russian artists such as Isaac Levitan, Ilya Repin, Marc Shagal and others.