A group of canvases by Western European Old Masters, acquired by Catherine the Great and housed in a specially created gallery, became the beginning of the priceless collection of paintings to be found in the Hermitage, one of the world`s major museums.

ISBN: 5-900530-36-1
Издательство: Иван Федоров
Дата выхода: январь 1997

The Art Institute of Chicago houses some of the most celebrated European and American paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Included in this collection are numerous masterpieces of realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and other aspects of modernism. Today a number of these paintings are revered as icons of modern Western culture, emblems of the inspired experimentation that has taken place on both sides of the Atlantic. For the last century, the Art Institute has supported the achievements of the most distinguished artists from Europe and America, acquiring and exhibiting now-beloved works of Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Georgia OKeeffe, Jackson Pollock, and others. This...

ISBN: 978-0-789-20402-8
Издательство: Abville
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011

The collection of French painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries owned by the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg justly ranks among the best in the world. The canvases represented in it were assembled, with some exclusions, by the Moscow art collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. Before 1948 the collections had been in the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow and after its closing they were divided between the State Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. In the late 1950s the masterpieces kept in the two collections began to be displayed in the rooms of the museums. The two collections, in St Petersburg and Moscow, equally superb in terms of quality, make up together a breath-taking panorama of...

ISBN: 5-93893-190-8
Издательство: П-2
Дата выхода: январь 2000