Saturday, October 22, 2016

Russia sends masterpieces to Paris – sz-online

Saturday, 22.10.2016
A visitor stands in front of the Gemälde “Tänzerin in the Studio of the photographer“ Edgar Degas in the exhibition “icons of the Modern age - The collection of Shchukin“.
A visitor stands in front of the painting “The dancer in the Studio of the photographer” by Edgar Degas is in the exhibition “icons of Modernity – The collection of Shchukin”.

© Reuters

Paris. its value is priceless: 130 icons of Modern art from two of the most important Russian museums are United for the first time in Paris. More than twenty-five paintings by Picasso over twenty works of Matisse, more than ten of Gauguin, images from Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne are in the process. They originate from the legendary collection of the Russian art patron Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin. The dictator Joseph Stalin had shattered in 1948, and between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg to split.

the exhibition in The Fondation Louis Vuitton is “a miracle,” says curator Anne Baldassari. Even in Russia, you’ve seen the works never United. Actually, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was supposed to be at the opening. However, because of the dispute over the war in Syria, he cancelled his visit to Paris.

that so many treasures of art were able to travel from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, to Paris, it took many actors. The diplomatic negotiations at the highest state level, to have lasted two years, as Baldassari told. She is also surprised by the result. Had hoped for the art historian, who from 2005 to 2014 at the top of the Paris Picasso Museum, and some 50 works on loan.

up to 20. February permanent exhibition is the highlight of the Paris art season and the French-Russian cultural year 2016/2017 is undisputed. Every work, every room is a Highlight. The chalk cliffs at Dieppe and Etretat by Claude Monet illuminate in soft colours next to the white beach at Saint-Briac by Paul Signac. And “portraits of the painting” combines have been inspired by the muses, the, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Maurice Denis and André Derain to some of your most beautiful portraits.

An entire room of Paul Gauguin and Henri Matisse, each is dedicated to. Of Gauguin, Shchukin had 16 plants that were presented in his Trubetskoi-Palace in Moscow is like a Fresco. Eleven of them are United in the Foundation. The colourful, exotic images come from the time, in Gauguin, Tahiti, the Paradise sought. Matisse Schtuschkin had 38 plants. The first Work he acquired in 1906. Three years later, he was Matisse’s “The dance” and “music” in order. The main works are to be seen in Paris. Both are in the Hermitage.

Schtuschkin (1854-1936) was a Russian business, and art collector. After a stay in Paris in 1897, he bought his first Monet. Shchukin was, in his stately house in Moscow a collection of the most daring Works of the 20th century. Century United. In 1909 he made the house available to the Public and thus created the first Museum for modern art in the world. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, the government seized his collection, and his father, emigrated to Paris, where he died in January 1936. (dpa)



Recommend your communication to us

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment