Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents Evolution of the French Landscape exhibition in the capital city of Japan, according to Culture TV channel. The exhibition is opened in the framework of Russia and Japan’s cross year.
The exposition is located in Tokyo Ueno park, which looks like Pantheon and Breakfast on the grass by Monet at the same time. More than 60 landscape paintings from the collection of Pushkin State Museum are presented at the exhibition. Among them are landscapes by Susanne, Gauguin, Picasso and by many other famous artists. At this, Japanese admirers of fine arts were lucky enough as it is impossible to see these masterpieces at the permanent display of Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow at one place – they are all sorted out by their authors. These paintings are displayed together for the first time, which enables to trace down the evolution of the French landscape for the two centuries: starting with the paintings of the end of the 17th century until the impressionists’ works of the beginning of 20th century. Some of these paintings have never been exhibited outside Russia before.
According to Pushkin Museum director Marina Loshak, they planned to join the history of Russian collectors, whose efforts helped to create this collection of the French fine arts. This is happening in Tokyo, the city, which is very hospitable to the Russian museums, she added.
The exhibition opens succession of significant cultural events to be arranged in Japan and Russia. The exhibition will work until July and then will travel to Osaka. Pushkin State Museum will launch exhibition of engravings of the Edo period.
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