Bonjour Russia The exhibition – shown for the first time in Germany - is curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts and shows over 120 masterpieces from the collections of four principal Russian museums – the State Hermitage and the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as the State Pushkin Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The exhibition is devoted to the years from 1860 to 1925 in Russia and France, not only uncovering parallels and reciprocal influences, but also the different developments in both countries. The spectrum of the Russian works on display will range from the realism of Ilya Repin and Serov to Cézannism, Fauvism, Neo-primitivism, Cubo-Futurism and the groundbreaking experiments in abstraction culminating in the Suprematism of Malevich and others. Key works by the most important pioneers of modern French and Russian painting will be on display, for example the Portrait of Jeanne Samary by Renoir, Mont Sainte-Victoire by Cézanne, the Portrait of Dr. Reyby Van Gogh, Her Name is Vairaumati by Gauguin, The Dance and The Red Room by Matisse, Guitar and Violin or Bathers by Picasso, The Red Jew by Chagall, 17 October 1905 by Ilya Repin, Composition No. 7 by Kandinsky, The nude by Tatlin, and the triptych of Black Cross, Black Circleand Black Square by Malevich. Thanks to the generosity of the Russian museums, these works can be seen together for the first time in Düsseldorf, and then in the Royal Academy in London. For more information visit: http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de

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