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Dumas, From Russia.

Dumas, Ann / Rosenthal, Norman (curators).

From Russia – French and Russian Master Paintings, 1870-1925.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 2008. 28 cm. 319 pages. Colour illustrations throughout. Orignal softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear and some staining to endpaper. From the library of the important british character-actor Michael Gough. His name and ownership-annotation to endpaper.

The book is divided into two sections: France / Russia

This important publication includes a section with Biographies of French and Russian Artists as well as a chapter on “Chronicle of Events in the Cultural and Political Life of France and Russia between 1860 – 1920”.

Includes for example the following essays: ‘Russia-France: A Meeting at the Crossroads’ (Albert Kostenevich); ‘Russian Art on the Path from Realism to Impressionism and Symbolism’ (Lydia lovleva); ’”…She hears the Clock’s Galloping Horse Inside Herself” (Hubertus Gassner) / Personal Religiousness and Religious Consciousness among Russian Artists at the Turn of the 20th Century / “Pure Painting” – Abstraction in Russia /

Artists listed are for example: Nathan ALtman, Leon Bakst, Liubov Popova, Pyotr Miturich, Boris Kustociev, Mikhail Vrubel, Alexander Yakolev, Ilya Repin, Alexander Rodchenko, Natalia Goncharova, Robert Falk, Nadezhda Udaltsova, etc. etc.

Paul Cezanne, Charles Carolus-Duran etc.

EUR 125,-- 

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Dumas, From Russia.