Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VI
1913
State Hermitage Museum
Masterpieces from the Hermitage in the Prado After the exhibition ‘The Prado in the Hermitage’ (Saint Petersburg, 25 February to 29 May 2011), the Prado Museum welcomes ‘The Hermitage in the Prado’ (Madrid, 8 November 2011 to 25 March 2012) featuring 179 works from the Hermitage’s collections.]]>
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The 179 works from the Hermitage occupy almost all of the Prado’s temporary exhibition galleries. As the Prado Museum quotes in a press note, “The Hermitage in the Prado” offers the visitors “the chance to see one museum inside another”, opening with portraits of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas I.
The exhibition features a great group of old master paintings, including Caravaggio’s “The Lute Player”, Velázquez’s “Three Men at a Table” and two important works by Rembrandt, “Portrait of a Scholar” and “Haman accepts his Fate”.
Highlighting the section of Modern Paintings are three works by Picasso -including the fascinating “The Absinthe Drinker”- as well as Kandinsky’s “Composition VI” and Malevich’s “Black Square”.
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