Modigliani v Fontannom dome
St. Petersburg: Muzei Anny Akhmatovoi. pb. More
Western European Art
"Shal'nye gody" Monparnasa: Zhivopis' i grafika Zhiulia Paskina i Leonara Fuzhity iz muzeev i chastnykh sobranii Frantsii, Shveitsarii, Bel'gii i Rossii ("Wild years" in Monparnasse: painting and graphic art by Jules Pascin and Leonard Foujita from museums and private collections in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Russia)
Moscow: Muzei izobrazitl'nykh iskusstv, 2015. Sewn pb. Combining works drawn from various collections done by the Balkan artist Jules Pascin from 1903 to 1930 and by the Japanese artist Leonard Foujita from 1914 to 1966, both working in Paris, the curators of this exhibition at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts... More
Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXX / Reports of the State State Hermitage Museum LXX
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. Reports publish research of curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, as well as general articles on acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and the history... More
Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXI / Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXI
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2014. Sewn pb. These are more than annual volumes chronicling the scholarship and collecting of a great museum - they are handsomely produced art books with sewn bindings and abundant high-quality illustrations. The main sections touch on varied themes in world art and collecting history: studies of... More
Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXII / Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXII
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn pb. Reports of the Hermitage publish research of its curators on individual works of art, attributing and dating works more accurately and examining lesser known works, and articles on acquisitions during the past year, restoration and preservation projects, new exhibitions, redesigned permanent exhibitions, and the... More
Soobshcheniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LXXIII / Reports of the State Hermitage Museum LXXIII
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. Sewn pb. Roman sculpture, Coptic textiles, Egyptian sarcophagi, Byzantine coins, Italian Renaissance painting, restoration and new acquisitions are among the subjects of articles published in this number of the Hermitage Museum’s annual journal. 212 p., approx. 200 color and b/w illus. , Rus. or ENGLISH. More
Mir russkogo dvorianstva: Frantsuzskoe iskusstvo XVIII – XIX vekov iz sobraniia kniazei Iusupovykh v Ermitazhe. Katalog vystavki / The world of the Russian nobility. French art of the 18th and 19th centuries from the collection of the Princes Yusupov in the Hermitage Museum. Catalogue of the Exhibition
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2016. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Yusupov Museum-Palace in St. Petersburg publishes French paintings and works of sculpture now at the Hermitage that the Yusupov family collected in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Initiated by Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov, the collection became the richest private collection... More
Veer v khudozhestvennoi kul'ture Vostoka i Zapada (Fans in artistic culture of East and West)
Moscow: Muz vostoka, 2009. Pb. Thanks to five substantive articles and the range of material - fans originating in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Russia from four museums and six private collections - this catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of the Orient (Muzei Vostoka) in Moscow will be... More
Ogiust Renuar: Bal v Mulen de la Galett (Auguste Renoir: Bal au Moulin de la Galette)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. sewn pb. In this catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition in the series Masterpieces from Museums of the World at the Hermitage the eminent curator and critic of modern French art explicates Renoir's work from the Musée d'Orsay. 64 p., 21 cm, approx. 30 color and b/w... More
Pol' Sezann: igroki v karty iz sobraniia Galerei Kurto (Paul Cézanne: The card-players from the Courtauld Gallery)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. pb. Published in the series Masterpieces from Museums of the World at the Hermitage, this concise study of one painting by Cézanne shows how refined and carefully imagined it is as a work of art. Cézanne did several works on the subject, and he Hermitage's eminent..... More
Zhorzh Ruo (Georges Rouault)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. Sewn pb. This monograph published on the occasion of the Hermitage’s first exhibition of Rouault’s works is based on thirty years of research by Albert Kostenevich the eminent curator of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western European art at the Hermitage. Kostenevich looks at the literary output of..... More
Pol’ Sezann i russkii avangard nachala XX veka (Paul Cézanne and the Russian Avant-Garde of the Early 20th c.)
1998. sewn pb. The Hermitage exhibition catalogue juxtaposes fifty-two of Cézanne’s paintings, thirty-two of which are from Russian collections, with those of Russian artists for whom he became a model of inventive talent. The curators note the importance for the development of the fact that Russian collectors such as S...... More
Dar bestsennyi. Katalog vystavki (A invaluable gift. Catalogue of the exhibition [of Matisse drawings of Lidia Delektorskaia])
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2009. Sewn pb. The Hermitage in this exhibition honors the donor of a major collection of Matisse works. Lidia Delektorskaia orphaned in the cholera epidemic emigrating to France with her relatives as a young woman in the 1920s, worked random jobs until she met took work with... More
Evropeiskoe kholodnoe oruzhie (European Blade Weapons)
St. Petersburg: Atlant, 2003. sewn cl. The extraordinary breadth of the arms collection of the Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Communication Troops (St. Petersburg) enables the author to survey the history of each kind of blade weapon as it developed in various countries of Europe. Although the majority of the... More
“Zvuchat lish’ pis’mena”: k 150-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia akademika Nikolaia Petrovicha Likhacheva. Katalog vystavki (“In Written Words Alone…”: [Published] On the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Academician Nikolay Petrovich Likhachev. Exhibition Catalogue)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2012. sewn pb. This is the catalogue of an extensive Hermitage exhibition that aims to show the main stages of writing and written culture on the basis of works originally collected over many years and in many places by the eminent scholar Nikolai Likhachev. Likhachev was a.... More
Parmidzhanino v vekakh i iskusstvakh: k 500-letiiu so dnia rozhdeniia (Parmigianino over the Centuries and in the Arts: [Catalogue Published on the Occasion of] the Five Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2004. sewn pb. This Hermitage exhibition catalogue combines detailed scholarship on individual works with a broad discussion of the Parmigianino’s popularity and influence beyond his native culture and period. The collection of the Hermitage is strong enough to publish 27 works by Parmigianino — one of which... More
Fluxus: Russian Atlases. A Selection from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
Moscow: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. These works come from the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center in Vilnius and illustrate an international strain of contemporary art. ""Fluxus is an ironic synthesis of the myriad strands of art activities and details from life all around us. Fluxus is actually the 'stream of... More
Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda v kartinakh Petera Khessa (Patriotic War of 1812 in the Paintings of Peter von Hess)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn cl. Having trained as a painter of military life and war, Peter von Hess accompanied the Bavarian field marshal Wrede in the campaign of 1814 against Napoleon. Battle painting was in vogue — a large gallery at Versailles and the Hall of Battle Paintings in... More
Villem II i Anna Pavlovna: Korolevskaia roskosh’ niderlandskogo dvora (Willem II and Anna Pavlovna: Royal Splendor at the Dutch Court)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2013. sewn pb. The interest in dynastic ties in Europe grounds the first section of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage. The second section focuses on the inspired collecting of Willem II many fruits of which ended up in the Hermitage collection; approximately thirty museums... More
Portbukety XIX – nachala XX veka iz kollektsii Kenber, Frantsii (Porte-Bouquets of the 19th to Early 20th Century from the Kenber Collection, France)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2015. sewn pb. These works were made to have the ornate character of jewelry and function as articles of costume. Exquisite metalwork adorned with enamel, semiprecious stones, and pearls, Porte-Bouquets made a fitting setting for the small bunches of flowers that women wore attached to their gowns. Most..... More
Glazami romantika. Gollandskaia i bel’giiskaia zhivopis’ XIX veka iz sobraniia Rademakersa. Katalog vystavki (A Romantic View. Dutch and Belgian Paintings of the 19th Century from the Rademakers Collection. Catalog of the exhibition in the State Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg: Herm. Sewn pb. The Rademakers Collection spans the first seven decades of the nineteenth century, with examples of nearly every genre and trend in the Romanticism of the Low Countries. There are summer and winter landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes, flower pieces and still lifes, nocturnes, portraits and genre... More
Vospitanie Amura: Frantsuzskaia graviura galantnogo stoletiia v sobranii Ermitazha (Education de l’amour: La gravure française du siècle gallant dans la collection de l’Ermitage)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2006. sewn pb. Over one hundred works illustrate how artists imagined the theme of love in eighteenth-century France. The author looks at how the subjects of poetry and novels shaped imagery in the visual arts. The engravings were done from the 1750s to the 1780s, and many... More
Arte Povera: tvorcheskii proryv. Katalog vystavki (Arte Povera: A Creative Revolution)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2018. Pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage's newly active department of contemporary art publishes works by Italian artists who used everyday materials (construction site leftovers, trash, cheap tools, hence the name Arte Povera or Poor Art) to create collages, sculptures, and other forms of... More
Olimpiia: pobeda nad vremenem: proizvedeniia antichnogo and zapadnoevropeiskogo iskusstva iz sobraniia Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Olympia: Victory of Time: Works of Ancient Art and Western European Art from the Hermitage)
St. Petersburg: Slavia, 2013. This catalogue of a Hermitage exhibition at Kazan publishes works of ancient art—vase-painting, sculpture, and numismatics—as well as a range of Western-European art including tapestries, medals, rare books, etchings, and paintings inspired by ancient athletic contests. The theme that ties the works together is the spectacle..... More
Maks Ernst: parizhskie gody (Max Ernst: Paris years)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2019. Sewn pb. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Hermitage publishes works from German, British and Russian collections done by Ernst in the crucial period of his career, the 1920s, when he was working in France and developing what would become his surrealistic aesthetics. Chapter titles... More