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Press-conference devoted to the exhibition in
Rome From Monet and Renoir to Matisse and Picasso from the State Hermitage
collection.
100 masterpieces of outstanding artists of French and world art of 19
th - 20 th centuries will constitute one of the most extraordinary exhibitions
not only in Italy but worldwide. It is supposed to illustrate the period
of French art starting from early Impressionism to the middle of 20 th
century. The exhibits include canvases that are inseparable from the history
of modern art such as Woman in the Garden and The bank of the Pond in
Mongeron by Monet, Portrait of Jeanne Samary and Girl with aFan by Renoir,
A Town of Villeneuve-La-Garenne on Seine by Sisley, Girl at the Piano,
Overture to Tannhauser and The Smoker by Cezanne, At the Foot of a Mountain,
A Magic Spring by Gauguin , Morning in Paris and Evening in Paris by Bonnard,
Red Room, Portrait of the Artist's Wife and Dance by Matisse, Absinthe
Drinker, Composition with a skull and Woman with a Fan by Picasso. Creative
work of the later two artists - the greatest masters of 20 th century
- is represented at the exhibition most fully: 20 works by Matisse and
15 by Picasso. The exhibition wil provide a possibility to see canvases
of not only well-known geniuses of European art, but also pictures by
Derain, Valtat, Vallotto whose role in the history of French art was considerable.
Most exhibits originate from two famous Russian collections - of Sergei
Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. Some pictures from the Hermitage collection
that were purchased recently will be on display abroad for the first time:
Beach in Trouville by Boudin and Custine street on Montmartre by Utrillo.
Two Compositions with a cut pear by Picasso , Spring by Rouault and a
number of drawings by Matisse will also be displayed outside Russia for
the first time.
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Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky and
President of the Mondadori publishing house Leonardo Mondadori |