Russia's Tretyakov Gallery announced today a solo exhibition of the sculptor Nikolai Nikogossian for the first time, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of his birth.

"This ambitious demonstration will allow museum patrons to appraise N.B. Nikogossian's excellence not only as a sculptor but also as a painter, as the latter persona has been virtually unknown to the general public so far," the Gallery said in a release. 

According to the source, the exhibition will include portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes – in all, 60 canvases from the master's family collection.

In addition, 10 graphic sheets will be put on display, as well as 63 sculptured works from the family collection and the Tretyakov Gallery funds.

To note, works of Nikolai Nikogossian – painter, graphic artist, teacher, People's Artist of Armenia (1977) People's Artist of the USSR (1982), winner of USSR State Prize (1977) – have entered the "golden fund" of the Soviet art. They are in the Russian Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts of Karelia the State Art gallery of Armenia, in the art museums of former Soviet Union
During his long life, Nikolai Nikogossian created more than 200 busts (in bronze, wood and marble), 600 oil paintings and 3000 charcoal drawings.

Among these works – well-known sculptural portraits of Gorky, G.V.Sviridov, Shostakovich, Komitas, images of Shirakatsi, the composition "Maya Plisetskaya," "toilers of the Ararat Valley" as well as number of outstanding works of monumental sculpture: the monuments of Avetik Isahakyan in Gyumri, Yeghishe Charents in Yerevan, etc.