Ilya Repin, Manifesto of October 17th, 1905, 1911, Oil on canvas, 184 x 323 cm. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. Photo © State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

LONDON.- The Royal Academy of Arts stages today a landmark exhibition presenting modern masterpieces drawn from Russia’s principal collections: the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Museum in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Over 120 paintings by Russian and French artists working between 1870 and 1925 will be displayed together for the first time ever in the United Kingdom in an exhibition which surveys the main directions of modern art from Realism and Impressionism to Non-Objective painting. Works will include paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse together with those by Kandinsky, Tatlin and Malevich. This exhibition will be a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating exchange that existed between French and Russian art during a crucial period that was witness to upheaval and revolution.

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