This magnificent book, the highly anticipated catalogue for the first collaborative exhibition in the United States between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings together a selection of notable French paintings from the Pushkin Museum, one of the world's great art museums. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book 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 Morosov. 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 Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, some of which, like Monet's Le Boulevard des Capucines, are also landmark works in the history of art.
This splendid collection of paintings, the majority of which have never before been on view in the United States, will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from December 15, 2002, to March 9, 2003.
The exhibition will then travel to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from April 5 to June 29, 2003, and to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from July 27 to October 12, 2003. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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