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SUNDAY: On Loan From Russia: French Masterpieces. Forty-one artworks from Russia's Hermitage and Pushkin museums on loan to the National Gallery are traced during their transfer to the U.S. Special attention is given to several rare Matisses. Special attention is in order for Fine Arts 13ies. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
...exiles' Cézannes, Picassos, Matisses, Gaugins and Van Goghs-356 paintings in all-were appropriated by the state and divided between the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad. The fortunes of these unrivaled hoards have fluctuated with politics. Stalin had them banished to the cellars as decadent Western formalism. After 1954, the collections were slowly reinstated, and now the Soviet Union has begun to use them as a cautiously played trump in the diplomatic game of cultural exchange...
Convictions. Last year, a group of more than 80 impressionist and post-impressionist works from the Hermitage and Pushkin collections traveled to Holland's Kroller-Muller Museum. On April 2 a smaller version of that show with a few additions-41 paintings in all-opens at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., before going to New York's M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. in May. It is an event not only for the National Gallery but also for Knoedler's, whose chairman, Occidental Petroleum's Armand Hammer (TIME, Jan. 29) was instrumental in persuading the Soviet government...
...produces. In literature there is an order which is absent elsewhere; in the poem, stanzas erect an imagined realm exclusive of chaos. The reader, whose desperate activities I've compared to those of an addict, turns to the Cantos with regret; he would rather read the measured lines of Pushkin...
...proper proletarian manner. "Some of our work needs to he rewritten and repolished," he said. "The times keep progressing, and our thinking must keep progressing." Teng is familiar with the major Russian works of the Lenin and Stalin eras, as well as with such writers as Chekhov, Pushkin, Hemingway, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. But he had never heard of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, or of any contemporary American novelists...