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Moscow 2017 - Part Two

Pushkin and Tretyakov Galleries

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Moscow is blessed with two great art museums... the Pushkin and the Tretyakov Galleries.

In the 19th and early 20th Centuries, three names stood out in relation to art collecting in Moscow: Pavel Tretyakov, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. Tretyakov concentrated on Russian art and icons while Shchukin and Morozov bought paintings from the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists of Western Europe.

The first part of this page will show the works of European artists, like Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin and Picasso. They are housed in the Pushkin Art Museum.

(Some of the works collected by Shchukin and Morozov are now in the Hermitage in St Petersburg.)

"Blue Dancers", by Edgar Degas.
"Nude Wiping Herself", by Edgar Degas.
"Portrait of Antonin Proust", by Edouard Manet.
"Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary", by Pierre Auguste Renoir.
"Woman at the Window", by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
"Mother and Child", by Mary Cassat.
"White Water-Lilies", by Claude Monet.
"Eternal Spring", by Auguste Rodin.
"Man Smoking a Pipe", by Paul Cezanne.
"Mont Saint-VIctoire Seen from Les Lauves", by Paul Cezanne.
"Pierrot and Harlequin (Mardi-Gras)", by Paul Cezanne.
"The Red Vineyard at Arles (Montmajour)", by Vincent Van Gogh.
"Portrait of Dr Rey", by Vincent Van Gogh. (Dr Rey looked after Van Gogh after Vincent had cut off his ear.)
"Aha Oe Feii? (What, Are You Jealous?)", by Paul Gauguin
"Te Arii Vahini (The Queen, The King's Wife)", by Paul Gauguin.
"Summer, The Dance", by Pierre Bonnard.
"Fruit and Bronze", by Henri Matisse.
"Nasturtiums and La Dance", by Henri Matisse.
"The Artist's Studio (The Pink Studio)", by Henri Matisse.
"Jaguar Attacking a Horse", by Henri Rousseau.
"Old Jew and a Boy", by Pablo Picasso.
"Harlequin and his Companion (The Saltimbanques)", by Pablo Picasso.
"Portrait of Ambroise Vollard", by Pablo Picasso.
"Builders", by Fernand Henri Leger.
"The Artist and his Fiancee", by Marc Chagall.
"Blue Over Multi-Coloured", by Wasily Kandinsky.
At the entrance to the Trtyakov Gallery, we are greeted with a statue of Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov. He was a Moscow merchant who started acquiring art in 1856. He bequethed his great collection to the Russian nation. The facade of the museum was designed by Viktor Vasnrtsov in the style of a Russian fairy-tale.
"Bogatyrs", by Vasnetsov V.M..
"Portrait of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy", by Ilya Repin.
"The Appearance of Christ to the People". by Ivanov A.A..
"Portrait of F.I. Shalyapin as Holofernes in Serov's Opera 'Judith' ", by Golovin A.Y..
"Religious Procession in the Kursk District", by Ilya Repin.
The Tretyakov Gallery has an impressive collection of Russian Icons.
"The Paternitas with the Saints", Novgorod, 14th Centruy.
"Our Lady of the Tikhvin", 1707.
"The Miracle of the Icon of Our lady of the Sign", Novgorod, 15th Century.
Detail from "Our Lady of the Sign", Novgorod, 15th Century.
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