Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns
Subtitle: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Contributors: Houston Museum of Fine Arts (Corporate Author); High Museum of Art (Corporate Author); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780890901113
Subjects: Gosudarstvennyæi muzeæi izobrazitel§nykh iskusstv imeni A.S. Pushkina; Painting; Art & Art Instruction; Russia (Federation); Moscow; History - General; Exhibitions; Painting, French
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.