OS14823 Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers New York, New York, USA 1995 First Edition Dust Jacket Near Fine Coffee Table Book Hard Cover Near Fine Black cloth on boards. 292 pp. Now in clear cover. "This extraordinary volume presents in color seventy-four important Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings - taken to Russia from Germany after the end of World War II and stored since then at the State Hermitage Museum. Only two of these works, all of which had previously been part of several private German collections, have been reproduced in color before. The paintings in this book were long thought to have been destroyed in the war. Only now has it been revealed that they spent the last half century hidden in the storerooms of the Hermitage, their existence a carefully guarded state secret. The way they came to light is part of the story of the great changes that have swept Russia since the end of the Communist era. Each of the seventy-four rediscovered works has been provided with a commentary by curator Albert Kostenevich. Some one hundred fifty comparative works and documentary photographs, reproduced in black-and-white, amplify the discussion, and provenance, bibliographies, and exhibition lists are provided for the paintings." $48.00USD
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