Old Master Paintings in Soviet Museums
Author: Irina Vladimirovna Linnik
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9785730004405
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From Russia
Author: Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Publisher: Royal Academy Books
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rich tradition of French painting was an important influence on Russian art from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, a period that saw the rise of many of the most important movements in modern art. A magnificent visual record of an unprecedented event, this book, the catalogue of an ambitious exhibition of master paintings from the four greatest museums of Russia, examines the interaction of these two great cultures. Drawing on the collections of the State Russian Museum and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the book presents outstanding examples of Salon painting, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism in France, and related movements in Russia, among them The Wanderers, Constructivism, and Suprematism. Paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Matisse are reproduced, along with works by Kandinsky, Tatlin, and Malevich. Key episodes in the story of this fascinating exchange include the vital role played by the great Russian collectors Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin, whose preeminent collections of French art were an inspiration to the Russian avant-garde; the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev's promotion of Russian art in France in 1906; and Henri Matisse's visit to Russia in 1911.
Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns
Author: Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780300097368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Illustrated and beautifully produced, Old Masters, Impressionists & Modern tells the story of the Russian taste for French art. Essays highlight such collectors as Catherine the Great, members of the Russian nobility such as the Yusupovs and the Golitsyns, and the early twentieth-century merchant-patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The book's authors relate how works from these distinguished collections were united at the Pushkin Museum to form one of the most impressive arrays of French paintings outside of France. The book reproduces and discusses seventy-six of the museum's most important holdings, including masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Camille Corot, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, some of which are also landmark works in the history of art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
USSR Information Bulletin
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Published: 1949
Total Pages: 874
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780642899682
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe catalogue for the exhibition of West-European and Russian paintings from the collections in Soviet museums, including State Hermitage, Leningrad, A.S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, State Russian Museum, Leningrad and State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Impressionist and Post-impressionist Paintings from the U.S.S.R.
Author: M. Knoedler & Co
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage
Author: Gosudarstvennyĭ Ėrmitazh (Russia)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 087099509X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from March 26, 1988 to June 5, 1988, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, from Jul. 9, 1988, to Sept. 18, 1988./ Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-134).
Russian and Soviet Views of Modern Western Art, 1890s to Mid-1930s
Author: Ilia Dorontchenkov
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-06-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0520253728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the first Modernist exhibitions in the late 1890s to the Soviet rupture with the West in the mid-1930s, Russian artists and writers came into wide contact with modern European art and ideas. Introducing a wealth of little-known material set in an illuminating interpretive context, this sourcebook presents Russian and Soviet views of Western art during this critical period of cultural transformation. The writings document complex responses to these works and ideas before the Russians lost contact with them almost entirely. Many of these writings have been unavailable to foreign readers and, until recently, were not widely known even to Russian scholars. Both an important reference and a valuable resource for classrooms, the book includes an introductory essay and shorter introductions to the individual sections.
Selling Russia's Treasures
Author: N. I︠U︡ Semenova
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780789211545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelling Russia's Treasures documents one of the great cultural dramas of the twentieth century: the sale, by a cash-hungry Soviet government, of the artistic treasures accumulated by the Russian aristocracy over the centuries and nationalized after the October 1917 revolution. An astonishing variety of objects, from icons and illuminated manuscripts to Fabergé eggs and Old Master paintings, entered the collections of wealthy Westerners like Andrew Mellon and Armand Hammer in the 1920s and 30s. Written by the leading experts in the field and long regarded as the definitive book on the subject, the original Russian edition of Selling Russia's Treasures is sought after scholars and laymen alike. Now, for the first time, it is made available in English, in a revised and expanded edition that includes a new chapter on the secret files of the Hermitage, previously considered lost, as well as new research on the sale of religious art, and of twentieth-century French masterworks from the Museum of New Western Art. Numerous color plates reunite long-dispersed works in a virtual museum that illustrates the powerful blow inflicted on Russia's cultural heritage by these secretive sales, and rare photographs and archival documents help bring this buried history to light.
