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Richness, quietness, pleasure. (Art).
Finding the modern French paintings at the Hermitage is not easy--and that's without taking into account the time and effort it takes to get to St. Petersburg. Once you get past the clogged entrance and the hostile babushka selling tickets, you have to follow a sporadic trail of easy-to-miss signs, negotiate a series of elaborately decorated state rooms and corridors, refuse to be waylaid by astonishing amounts of malachite, lapis lazuli, and colored marble, thread your way around clusters of multilingual visitors, locate a hard-to-find dingy back stair, and climb to the third floor to what must be the most unprepossessing but mercifully uncrowded exhibition spaces in the ...
- From Gauguin to Matisse--an extraordinary exhibition comes to the AGO. (Arts &...
- Magazine article from: Catholic New Times Blocki, Marta October 20, 2002 700+ words
...valued cultural treasures, the State Hermitage Museum, will be lending an extraordinary...French Painting from Gaugin to Matisse, to the Art Gallery of Ontario...2001 exhibition Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and His...
- MOMA teams up Matisse and Picasso.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) February 6, 2003 700+ words
...Queens site on the map, and "Matisse Picasso" certainly looks to...9431; www.moma.org. ___ Matisse and Picasso appear again, along...Avant-Garde From Gauguin to Matisse From the Hermitage Museum," a dazzling exhibition...
- Paintings in the Hermitage.
- Magazine article from: National Review Gardner, James December 17, 1990 700+ words
...opened museum that faces the Louvre from across the Seine. Now comes Paintings in the Hermitage, whose massive collections, stretching from Gothic to Matisse, have been minutely described by Colin Eisler. Eisler, in contrast to Gowing, has...
- Matisse: creativity and experimentalism. (Henri Matisse, The Museum of Modern...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) January 1, 1993 700+ words
...history of 20th-century art. Matisse is revealed fully not only...mutually complementary, Matisse collections in the world: those of The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg...thus is able to represent Matisse's most innovative period...
- NEWS & NOTES; Hermitage lending treasures for Toronto show.(ENTERTAINMENT)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Abbe, Mary April 22, 2001 700+ words
...stop for "Treasures from the Hermitage Museum, Russia: Rubens and...nearly 6 feet tall. Future Hermitage shows coming to Toronto will...Voyage: Gaugin, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso," and "Art...Toronto museum will send the Hermitage a show of Inuit art and historical...
- Matisse-Picasso rivalry exhibition.
- News wire article from: United Press International March 12, 2003 700+ words
...upmanship more than Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, the 20th...brutally distorted in contrast to Matisse's sensuous nudes of the 1920s...including the Russia's State Hermitage Museum and many never before...statement is the juxtaposition of Matisse's inspired "Violinist at...
- Multicolour Matisse.
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) March 18, 2005 700+ words
...great works from the Hermitage in St Petersburg: Still...period around 1910 when Matisse had succeeded in evolving...Tablecloth, also from the Hermitage, but dating from 1906...It was painted while Matisse's mind was fizzing...
- MATISSE WORKS WORTH TRIP TO NEW YORK FOR MET'S LATEST EXHIBIT.(Home)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 19, 1990 700+ words
...From Poussin to Matisse: The Russian Taste for French...museums in the Soviet Union, the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Pushkin...Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, and this year the Americans...Treasures of ...," "Poussin to Matisse" is presented as a reflection...
