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'New Moscow', Yuri Pimenov

One of the 250 artworks featured in “Russia!”, the Guggenheim Museum’s extensive new exhibition exploring 800 years of Russian art.

“New Moscow”, Yuri Pimenov, 1937 © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
“New Moscow”, Yuri Pimenov, 1937 © The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
See www.guggenheim.org/russia

“Russia!” is the most comprehensive and significant exhibition of Russian art outside Russia since the end of the Cold War. Including more than 250 artworks, many of which have rarely or never travelled abroad, the exhibition is split into nine themes:

  • 13th-17th Centuries
  • The Imperial Collections
  • The 18th Century
  • The 19th Century
  • The Collections of Shchukin and Morozov
  • Early 20th Century and Avant-Garde
  • Late 1920s-1930s
  • 1940s-1980s
  • 1980s to the Present

    Click here for more details: www.guggenheim.org/russia. For a review of the exhibition see “The ‘Russia!’ art lovers should know” on the International Herald Tribune via the New York Times.

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