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January-March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1.
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MATISSE TO MALEVICH
— Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage —
6 March — 17 September 2010
Hermitage ~ Amsterdam
Amstel 51, Amsterdam
http://www.hermitage.nl/en/
Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other
contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display from 6 March 2010 to 17 September 2010 at
the Hermitage Amsterdam in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich. Pioneers of modern art from the
Hermitage. For this exhibition about 75 paintings have been selected from the Hermitage St.- Petersburg,
which has one of the world’s finest collections of French painting of the early twentieth century. Apart
from the world-famous French masters, such equally celebrated Russian contemporaries as Malevich
and Kandinsky will be represented. These artists are seen as the pioneers of Modernism. Almost all the
works exhibited are on permanent display in St.- Petersburg. Most come originally from the Moscow
collections of Morozov and Shchukin. This is the first time that this extensive collection of avant-garde
masterpieces will be on display in the Netherlands. The exhibition explores the origins of modern art as
an art historical phenomenon, but also looks at the passion of the artists, when at a crucial moment in art
history at the beginning of the last century they initiated a revolution in art.
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