Synopsis
Presented here are 277 paintings in the National Gallery of Arlington (Washington DC), the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) and the Hermitage (Leningrad). Masterworks from the great national collections of the US and Russia are brought together, featuring the art of Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Rouault, Rousseau, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and other painters of the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist schools.
Reviews
In her introduction, Bessonova, curator of Impressionist paintings at the Pushkin Museum, focuses on Muscovites Ivan Morozov and Sergei Shchukin, whose collections of French art formed the Impressionistic nucleus of the Pushkin and Hermitage. But it is Williams of the National Gallery who makes the work. He has encapsulated in a few telling pages the history of Impressionist art and the part played by the American tycoonsFrick, Mellon, Chester Dale. As the result of an unusual Soviet-American collaboration, for the first time 277 masterworks from the three museums are reproduced in a single, handsome, monumental volume. Brief biographies preface the selections of each artistCezanne, Degas, Matisse, Picasso, et al. Recommended for both academic and (affluent) public libraries. Gloria K. Rensch, formerly with Vigo Cty. P.L., Terre Haute, Ind.
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