Hidden Treasures Revealed: Impressionist Masterpieces and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg - Hardcover

Albert G. Kostenevich; A. G. Kostenevich,

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810934329 ISBN 13: 9780810934320

Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Shows and describes French paintings that were taken from Germany to Russia at the end of World War II and have not been exhibited since

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

From Publishers Weekly:

An astonishing feast of unknown masterpieces, this glorious album is a historic event that deepens our understanding of modern art. It documents an exhibition at Russia's Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, unveiling a large trove of French impressionist and post-impressionist paintings?by Monet, Renoir, Matisse, Pissarro, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, etc.?whose existence had been a carefully guarded secret for half a century. The paintings were seized from German private collections during WWII and transferred to the Hermitage's storage rooms. Many of these works have never been exhibited before, even in prewar times. Among the 74 full-page color plates are Van Gogh's psychologically charged White House at Night, painted six weeks before his death; Degas's Interior with Two Figures, a symbolic drama of alienation between the sexes; vibrant pictures made in Tahiti by Gauguin; and canvases by Daumier, Delacroix, Edouard Vuillard, Andre Derain. Kostenevich, a Hermitage curator, has provided an extensive commentary on each picture. BOMC main selection.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N Abrams Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810934329
• ISBN 13: 9780810934320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 292