Description |
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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Features large groups of works by such central French artists as Honore Daumier and Paul Signac, as well as individual sheets by Paul Cezanne, Eugene Delacroix, J.-A.-D. Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. There are in addition numerous drawings by the German Adolph von Menzel and by the Englishman Thomas Rowlandson. From the twentieth century, there are works by Emil Nolde and an extensive group by Alexander Archipenko. A highlight of the volume |
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Is one of the most famous of all Vincent van Gogh's images, his renowned watercolor Boats at Saintes-Maries. For each of these works, Dr. Tatiana Ilatovskaya has written an illuminating commentary, placing the drawing within the context of the artist's oeuvre. Citations are given for each work's provenance and literature. All eighty-nine drawings are reproduced in color, as full-page plates, supported by comparative illustrations reproduced in black-and-white |
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Recently it became known that for nearly fifty years the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has held in storage a major trove of artworks from German private collections. Taken to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, these masterworks had not been seen since and were generally thought to have been lost or destroyed. Among the treasures of Master Drawings Rediscovered is a magnificent collection of thirty-five drawings by Francisco de Goya. The volume also |
Notes |
"The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) |
Subject |
Drawing -- Collectors and collecting -- Germany -- Catalogs.
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Drawing -- Collectors and collecting -- Germany -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing -- Europe -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing -- Europe -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing, European -- Catalogs.
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Drawing, European -- Exhibitions.
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Drawing, European -- 19th century -- Catalogs.
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Drawing, European -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
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Genre/Form |
Catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
Russia (Federation). Ministerstvo kulʹtury.
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LC no. |
96003545 |
ISBN |
0810937883 |
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9780810937888 |
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