Mission & Policy

This site is the property of Vera Kofyan and the company Maof Devora, which operates from Israel.

Please read this agreement carefully. By accessing or using the site and/or services provided, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. I have made every effort to only include essential points.

Mission Statement

This site was created by Tatiana and Vera Kofyan as an informative site, intending to bring to the public at large the beauty and intensity of the hitherto little-known Russian Avant-garde phenomenon. Tatiana's vision was to acquaint the world with this unique art in all its complexity, innovation and limitless courage in the face of persecution. A talented artist herself, the Russian Avant-garde was her passion, and she felt keenly the need to tell the world the truth about it. You may learn more about this extraordinary woman at her page About the Site Creator, in her own words and mine.

Upon my mother's death, after a period of almost 5 years that the site was kept at the point she ceased developing it, in November 2003, when she succumbed to lymphoma relapse, I, Vera Kofyan, her eldest daughter am fortunate to be able to actively continue her dream and life project, through my company Maof Devora.

In keeping with my mother's wishes and the express wishes of the visitors collected via a poll, this site remains informative in nature. There will be no commercial links over the pages, unless the page is expressly intended for promotion of related services or events, required by the visitors. The access to information on these pages is given freely to all who is interested in art in general and in Russian Avant-garde in particular.

Completeness and accuracy of information

This site is continually under development and I am not an art expert. Therefore, I can make no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the information, which may change without my knowing or contain an error.

I can however assure you that I shall endeavor to check the information I place on this site with reliable sources.

I also will be glad to receive any corrections from my visitors in the event of them finding a mistake or outdated information on these pages.

Copyright policy

All texts, layouts, design and original material on this site are the property of Vera Kofyan. If you wish to reprint, copy, reference or use this material in any other way, please contact me stating your wishes and objectives, in order to obtain written permission.

Copyright for all the works of artists presented herein are the property of the artists' heirs and/or museums/parties holding the works, had they obtained these rights. For all questions regarding those rights please contact them.

Avant-garde community services

This site is also intended as a tool for professional use for all the people who live and breathe Russian Avant-garde from day to day: collectors, galleries, art critics and scholars, art students, authenticators etc.

For them and for all who are interested a Newsletter has been established, published in the middle and the end of each month. All site developments, additions, changes and plans of the latest period will be included in each edition, and an archive will be available.

In addition, other community activities may be added at a later time.

Russian Avant-garde Gallery is not responsible for the content posted in its Guestbook and/or other services by visitors, although every effort is made to screen the posts and prevent abusers from posting offensive and/or commercial content.

Accounts, passwords and security

To receive the Newsletter you are required to subscribe to Russian Avant-garde Gallery mailing list, by completing the registration as prompted by the registration form. I trust that subscribers provide only information which is true, accurate, current and complete. Subscribers who do otherwise will be taken off the mailing list.

Subscribers may terminate their subscription at any moment by following the provided "unsubscribe" link. It would be helpful to know the reason for subscription termination, in order to improve the service given.

The hosting company undertakes reasonable security measures to protect the data that resides on our servers. However, no security system is impenetrable, therefore Russian Avant-garde Gallery cannot warrant or guaranty the security of its host's servers, nor can it guaranty that information supplied by subscribers or other users will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.

Privacy policy

Russian Avant-garde Gallery respects your privacy in its use of your personally identifiable information collected when you subscribe to our service or participate in an online activity such as a contest or a survey.

Russian Avant-garde Gallery is committed to protect your privacy and will not disclose nor sell your personally identifiable information to any third.  Russian Avant-garde Gallery has zero SPAM tolerance and never sends unsolicited mail, and if you do not wish to receive further correspondence you may always unsubscribe by means of link provided.

Russian Avant-garde Gallery uses certain widely accepted technologies, such as "cookies," to personalize and improve your online experience or to track your access to, and use of the services on this site, as well as your responses to online surveys, or monitor site activity. You always have the option of setting your browser to warn you when a cookie is being accessed on your computer, to delete cookies that are currently on your computer or to decline cookies altogether. However, to take full advantage of subscription services and features, your browser must accept cookies. The settings on your computer that allow you to accept or refuse cookies vary depending on the Web browser you are running. Please check the help tab of your browser for specifics on your software.

Russian Avant-garde Gallery does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child whose personally identifiable information you believe was disclosed to me, please contact me that I may delete such information from the system.

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This agreement may be modified at any time and without notice, and such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting on the site or via email, for subscribers.

Please review the agreement periodically to be aware of such modifications and your continued access or use of the site and/or the services shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified agreement.