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European Painting of the Late 19th to Early
20th Century from the Hermitage Collection The first exhibition organized by the State Hermitage and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation at The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, USA presents 45 masterpieces that that bring out both the differences and the obvious mutually complementary character of these two world-famous collections. The exhibition contains canvases by Impressionists, Post-Impressionists and early Modernists, including outstanding works by Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Vincent van Gogh. It visitors to appreciate in full measure the collections assembled by the tremednous Russian collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. Founded in 1764, the State Hermitage in St Petersburg is one of the greatest museums in the world. Its collection numbers more than three million works of art spanning from prehistoric culture to the early 20th century and including valuable examples of Middle Eastern and Ancient Greek culture, works of art from Greece and Rome, the Islamic world and the Orient, the Italian Renaissance and 19th- and 20th-century Europe. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is home to a first-class collection of late-19th- and 20th-century art, including outstanding works by Beuys, Brancusi, Cézanne, Chagall, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rothko, Serra and many others. Before the Russian revolution of 1917, the majority of the paintings from the Hermitage belonged to the private collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, prominent Russian entrepreneurs who bought up first-class works by French painters. A scholarly catalogue with a foreword by Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage, and Thomas Krens, director of the Guggenheim Museum, has been published for the exhibition. The articles were written by Albert Kostenevich, senior researcher at the State Hermitage. |
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