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Saint-Petersburg > City Today > Museums > THE HERMITAGE > Hermitage Chronicles
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HERMITAGE CHRONICLES In the Nikolayevsky Hall — “The Colour Black”, a retrospective of the cult avant-garde artist Pierre Soulage, who was fascinated by the colour black and the possibilities it affords. For him black is not even a colour at all, but a constantly changing condition of the surface of the canvas, a reflection of painting on black.
In the Alexander Hall — “20th Century Dutch Masters (1945-1985)”, on loan from the Stedlik Museum in Amsterdam. It includes 33 works by the 20th century’s greatest exponents of abstract expressionism.
Many famous artists have worked in the medium of pastel drawing: Maurice Quentin de la Tour and Gustav Lundberg, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Pablo Picasso. Over 60 of the Hermitage’s collection of 18th and 19th century pastels by Italian, German, French and Swedish masters will be on show in the Twelve-Column Hall from 18 September.
Masterpieces of the Scythian animalistic style from the Hermitage’s collection and amazing archaeological finds from the Scythian-Sarmatian period, discovered in the Filippov burial-mounds in the Southern Urals, can be admired from 17 October onwards. The exhibition has been given the modest but tasteful title “The Golden Deer of Eurasia”.
In Paris in 1787 Catherine II bought the 1500 gems in the famous collection of the Dukes of Orleans from Louis-Philippe-Josef Egalite. More than 200 pieces from the collection (dating from the 4th century BC to the mid-18th century) can be seen in the exhibition “The Story of a Collection. The Duke of Orleans’ Gems”, which opens in the Gold Room in the Winter Palace on 30 October.
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