Hidden treasures revealed : impressionist masterpieces and other important French paintings preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The wave of change that has swept Russia since the fall of Communism has now revealed masterpieces hidden away and guarded as state secrets including some of the finest works by Degas and Van Gogh. The Hermitage Museum put them on show for the first time in half a century. This book displays the paintings in full colour, together with details and associated or complementary works to show their context. Seventy-four Masterpieces Of French Painting, Long Believed Lost In World War Ii, By Many Of The Greatest Artists Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries. Eugène Delacroix -- Jean-baptiste-camille Corot -- Honoré Daumier -- Gustave Courbet -- Henri Fantin-latour -- Édouard Manet -- Hilaire-germain-edgar Degas -- Pierre-auguste Renoir -- Claude Monet -- Alfred Sisley -- Camille Pissarro -- Paul Cézanne -- Georges-pierre Seurat -- Paul Signac -- Paul Gauguin -- Vincent Van Gogh -- Henri De Toulouse-lautrec -- Édouard Vuillard -- Pablo Picasso -- Albert Marquet -- Georges Rouault -- André Derain -- Henri Matisse. Albert Kostenevich ; [translated From The Russian By Elena Kolesnikova And Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Of The Russian Connection Unlimited And Stas Rabinovich Of Stas International]. Published On The Occasion Of An Exhibition Of Art Removed From Germany At The End Of World War Ii. Includes Bibliographical References. A collection of color photos and detailed descriptions of the Impressionist masterpieces and other important French Paintings preserved by the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. This volume presents 74 important Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings that were almost completely unknown before their exhibition in March 1995, at the State Hermitage Museum. Presents seventy-four Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings exhibited in public for the first time in 1995 since being hidden in the storerooms of Russia's State Hermitage Museum during World War II