Museums of Russia abroad: Exhibition “Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage” goes on display in Australia

On October 1, 2018 the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) is launching an exhibition “Masters of Modern Art from the Hermitage”, which presents 65 works created between the 1890s and 1920s.

The display devoted to the emergence of Modernism as a phenomenon in cultural history will include paintings by both great artists associated with France, such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Kees van Dongen and Maurice de Vlaminck, and their celebrated Russian contemporaries Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich. The exhibition stresses the enduring significance of artists who brought about a revolution in painting at the beginning of the last century. The main section will be devoted to what became a continuation of the movement initiated by the Impressionists, but the few works by Manet, Sisley and Pissarro will serve as a prologue to the discussion about art in the 20th century.

The exhibition will be open until February 1, 2019.