The Russian Museum, Leningrad / Gosudarstvennyi Russkii Muzei: Kollektsii Zhivopisi, Skulptury, Grafiki, Dekorativno-Prikladnogo Iskusstva XII-XX Vekov

Moscow: Sovietsky Khudozhnik Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. Navy cloth with silver Cyrillic lettering; color-pictorial dj with Cyrillic lettering; 367 pp. with 350 color and bw illustrations. VG/VG-; rubbing and a tiny tear to dj; museum ex-lib. copy. Item #121186
ISBN: 5269002965

Main text in Russian, but the list of illustrations is in English, and there is a one-page English summary of the text in back. Beautiful photos of the museum itself and of a taste of the collection. Iconography, early Russian decorative arts, Russian paintings, drawings, prints, applied arts, folk arts and crafts, Soviet painting and sculpture, and Soviet graphic arts. Thorough annotations of each work and excellent introductory essay material.

Price: $60.00

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