Icons of Modern Art: The Shchukin Collection: Fondation Louis Vuiton October 22, 2016-March 5, 2017

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- An exceptional exhibition catalog, a dive into the 19th and 20th century painting - Gathers 130 masterpieces together The Fondation Louis Vuitton's unprecedented 2016 exhibition brought together 130 masterpieces, among the most iconic of the collection created in Moscow by the great Russian art patron, Sergei Shchukin. From Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1866) by Claude Monet, the Mardi gras (1888-90) by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin's Tahitian odalisque Eh quoi, tu es jalouse? (1892), the luminescent panel L'Atelier du peintre (1911) by Henri Matisse, to conclude with Pablo Picasso's Trois femmes (1908), the magnificence of Shchukin's collection is exhibited here. Extended by a group of some 30 major works from the Russian avant-gardes, including Counter Relief (1916) by Vladimir Tatlin, Green Stripe (1917) by Olga Rozanova, and Kazimir Malevich's monochrome painting, Black Suprematie Square (1929), Icons of Modern Art covers the extreme breadth of this journey through 19th- and 20th-century creation. The presentation of these exceptional works, where our collective gaze comes together, constitutes an exemplary "painting lesson." Cover Contents Essays Sergei Shchukin. Modern art pioneer Sergei Shchukin. An outstanding Muscovite collector The elderly gentleman on the beach at Biarritz Pink and black. Shchukin, the Steins, Matisse, Picasso Travel diary of Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin in the Sinai (excerpts). October-November 1907 Album The ghost collection The painters and the collector Contemplations Epiphany Extreme landscapes Gauguin: the great iconostasis Portraits of painting Matisse: the Pink Room Still lifes: falling bodies Totems & taboos The Picasso “cell” Icons The four dimensions Prototypes Anthology Russian critical responses to the Shchukin collection and modern French painting Anthology of critical texts Chronology and catalogue of works Chronology of the life of Sergei Shchukin General catalogue of works of art acquired by Sergei I. Shchukin (275 entries) Selected bibliography