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This extravagantly illustrated book showcases all of the Hermitage's celebrated Impressionist and Post Impressionist masterworks--by Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, and others--as well as an astounding 60 works by Matisse and 40 by Picasso. But it also features a panoply of paintings by other artists--among them Bonnard, Vuillard, Dufy, and Derain--plus a trove of never-before-seen treasures, including works in storerooms, paintings on canvas backs, and five works--by Utrillo, Rouault, and others--acquired through a recent gift to the museum from Boris Yeltsin.

"The book is a catalog of the collection and a history of modern-art collecting in Russia. Among its nuggets is a rather acerbic explanation of why it was Moscow rather than St. Petersburg that produced Russia's great collectors of modern art: 'In their attempts to join high society, the merchants of St. Petersburg were too slavish to its tastes and fashions,' a useful reminder that true art collecting often requires going against the grain, not with it."

Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal, 12/3/1999

"The volume has dozens of never before seen masterpieces, including works by such masters as van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Matisse, Rousseau, and Picasso. The book was masterfully assembled by Albert Kostenevich, a world renowned curator of modern European art. Kostenevich provides readers with a fascinating introductory essay. He also includes superb accounts of the history of the Hermitage collection, the Salon and impressionist period, the post impressionist era, and the art movements of the modern and post modern ages. In a book of dazzling images, a few stand out to this reader."

John Murray, Bloomsbury Review, May 2000

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