One hundred extraordinary masterpieces of the Impressionists and the historical avantgardes, from the Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, shown in Rome at the Scuderie Papali. The fundamental nucleus of the collection of "contemporary French painters", outstanding figures in the panorama of European art in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
The catalogue illustrates over 80 paintings and drawings, most of which were part of the collections of Sergej Schukin and Ivan Morozov, including the large panel of the Danse by Matisse, paintings from the blue and pink periods to the Cubism of Picasso, works by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Sisley, Gauguin, Rousseau and Bonnard.
A must for all lovers of Impressionism.
Rome, 1999-2000