Author: KUZNETSOVA, IRINA; [ET AL]
Title: From Poussin to Matisse: The Russian Taste for French Painting
Description: Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago. 1990. (ISBN: 0-86559-086-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 168 pages; 51 plates. Works from the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museums that traced Russian admiration for French art beginning with Catherine the Great and continuing to the 20th century. One essay discusses the collectors, Sergei Shuchukin (Matisse) and Ivan Morozov (Sisley and Cezanne). Both collections were nationalized after the October Revolution of 1918. Very Good.

Keywords: Russia, Russian Collectors, French Art Poussin Matisse Art-France, Belgium 0865590869


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