Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow - Hardcover

Antonova, Irina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300097360 ISBN 13: 9780300097368

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

About the Author:

Irina Antonova is the director of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. Charlotte Eyerman is an independent art historian. Eugenia Georgievskaya and Elena Sharnova are curators at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300097360
• ISBN 13: 9780300097368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272