Permanent exhibition of the Nalbandyan Museum-Studio

About exhibition

The Nalbandyan Museum-Studio was established by the decision of the Moscow Government in 1992: the artist's collection, donated by him to the city, became the basis of the exhibition. Located on the site of Nalbandyan's studio at building No. 8/2 on Tverskaya Street, the museum today accurately recreates the space of the artist's life and work during the Soviet period. The museum-studio's collection contains more than 1,500 works by the artist: paintings — landscapes, still lifes, portraits and genre scenes created by the artist at various stages of his creative career, as well as materials from his personal archive, photographs, books, pieces of furniture and decorative-applied art. The museum-studio's space consists of three exhibition halls: painting, graphics and a "memorial" room. The painting hall presents landscapes and still lifes, as well as works such as "Komsomolka Terikhova" (1934), "Portrait of test pilot Georgy Mosolov" (1966), "Vladimir Ilyich and Felix Dzerzhinsky" (1988), and a number of sketches for the artist's monumental paintings: "The Funeral of Nikolai Bauman" (1955), "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's Speech on Red Square in 1919" (1956) and many others. The graphics hall displays a collection of sketches, drawings and travel albums created during the artist's trips abroad to India, Italy and France, as well as a gallery of leading figures of politics and the arts of the Soviet period. Special attention in the museum-studio's exhibition is given to a series of photographs from Nalbandyan's personal archive.