This exhibition presents forty works from the Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts' Russian avant-garde collection. The museum preserves one of the most significant collections of Russian avant-garde from the 1910-1920s. including masterworks from nearly all Russian avant-garde movements - cubism, cubo-futurism, neoprimitivism, suprematism, constructivism - by the greatest artists such as Mihail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Nadezhda Udaltsova, El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Pyotr Konchalovsky. In 1918 the avant-garde artists gathered in the Fine Arts department of the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros) in Moscow to discuss the principles of public education to be realized by modern art museums . In December they authorised the list of artists, whose works were to be purchased by the Narkompros for the national arts fund. Between 1925 and 1934, the works were kept in the Urals National Museum. In 1936, the freshly opened Sverdlovsk (Ekaterinburg's name during the Soviet era) Art Gallery took ownership of the collectio
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