Impressionists and Post-impressionists in Soviet Museums - Hardcover

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in Soviet Museums book by Anna Barskaya

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Pages and book excellent. Dust jacket has wear/damage. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Soviet collections of French paintings and drawings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are considered to be among the world's finest. They are composed chiefly of works from the celebrated private collections of two Moscow connoisseurs, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who associated closely with French artists and critics. In purchasing works by as yet unrecognized French painters they relied largely on intuition and help from their long-standing con-tacts with such Paris dealers as Durand-Ruel, Druet, Vollard, Bernheim Jeune and, later, Kahnweiler. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Russian artists and art critics took a keen interest in every new trend in French painting and literature. In 1879 Emile Zola, acting upon Ivan Tur-genev's advice, accepted the post of art critic for the St. Petersburg journal Vestnik Evropy (Euro-Dean Herald), to which he then regularly contributed. Concurrently, the Impressionist movement came t. Artikel-Nr. Batch-FM652-G-13437

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