Rozhdenie sovremennogo iskusstva: vybor Sergeia Shchukina. Katalog vystavki / The Birth of Modern art: Sergey Shchukin’s Choice. Exhibition catalogue; : . K
St. Petersburg: Herm / Muzei izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv im. A.S. Pushkina, 2022. Sewn pb. One of the first collectors in Europe to sense the greatness of the French experiments in painting technique, Sergei Shchukin bought prolifically paintings by Monet, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. This is the first comprehensive exhibition of works from his collection now held by the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. 432 p., approx. 300 color and b/w illus., Rus. with title page and summary in ENGLISH. Item #4280
ISBN: 9785935729813
Chapter headings: Shchukin’s 1913 catalogue; evolution of Sergei Shchukin’s taste; An elderly gentleman on the beach in France; 1908: the founding of the first museum of modern art; State Museum of New Western Art and “new masters” at the Hermitage. Contemporary documents: Sergei Shchukin, diary; Pavel Muratov, Outline of the new art in Shchukin’s gallery (1908); Alexander Benois, Letters on art: Impressions of Moscow (1913); Iakov Tugenkhol’d, Sergei Shchukin’s French collection (1914); Nikolai Berdiaev, Picasso (1914); Sergei Bulgakov, Corpse of beauty apropos of Picasso’s paintings (1915).
Price: $142.00