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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 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 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 arti

Author
Ilatovskai͡a, Tatʹi͡ana Afanasʹevna.
Publisher
State Hermitage Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9780866363945
Subjects
Crafts & Hobbies, History, Art

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