Antonova, Irina Aleksandrovna And Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, E. B. Georgievskaia, Elena Sharnova, Houston Museum Of Fine Arts, High Museum Of Art, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art. Listings

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1 Antonova, Irina Aleksandrovna and Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, E. B. Georgievskaia, Elena Sharnova, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, High Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Yale University Press, 2002. 0890901112 / 9780890901113 Paperback Very Good  Clean book with tight, uncreased spine. French flaps. Well illustrated. 244pp. Index. This handsome volume presents 76 paintings from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most French in origin and all found in Moscow's Pushkin Museum. The authors present a history of the Pushkin Museum (established in 1898 and opened in 1912, it is now Moscow's number two art museum after the Hermitage) and detailed accounts of each painting in the show. Included is much fresh information about unfamiliar work by such top French artists as Poussin, Ingres, Renoir, and Cezanne, as well as such lesser knowns as Vigee-Lebrun, Couture, Fromentin, and Manguin. Collected for the most part by Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who presented them to the Russian people in the late 1920s, these paintings were later locked up by Joseph Stalin, who considered them corrupt. It was not until the 1960s that the public was allowed to see these works.   Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart