From March 25 to June 4, for the first time in Moscow, the Museum of Russian Impressionism will host a large-scale display of masterpieces from the collection of the National Gallery of Armenia and the Museum of Russian Art of Yerevan. To the exposition “Armenian impressionism. From Moscow to Paris ”included 58 works by more than 20 Armenian impressionist artists.

Among the paintings, visitors will be able to see the works of the internationally recognized master Martiros Sarian. The great Armenian artist was a student of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin, classmate of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Also at the exhibition, authors unknown to the public will be presented whose work on beauty is not inferior to the paintings of Eduard Manet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet and others. This is the work of Yeghishe Tadevosyan - a key figure for Armenian art. Yeghishe Tadevosyan took an active part in the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions and the World of Art association, was friends with Vasily Polenov and Mikhail Vrubel. Also among the artists it is worth highlighting Sedrak Arakelyan, a delicate and lyrical painter who combines bright colors with soft modeling of volumes, and Vahram Gayfedzhyan, who worked with Konstantin Korovin on the design of the performances at the Bolshoi Theater.

Armenian impressionism as an original phenomenon was formed at the turn of the XIX – XX centuries under the influence of the founders of the trend - French artists, adopting their unique way of referring to the image of moments as if snatched from real human life; following the great teachers, they conveyed a sense of light, as if dissolving in it the usual outlines of objects and forms. Their lively, vibrating swab, the choice of topics were called to glorify and sing all living things.

V. Gayfedzhyan, Lilac, 1917