ARTNET LONDON


Jan. 22, 2007

"FROM RUSSIA" TO OPEN, AT LAST
Despite continuing diplomatic tensions between Russia and Britain, "From Russia: French and Russian Masterpieces 1870-1925" is set to open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London this weekend, Jan. 26-Apr. 18, 2008. Boasting 120 Russian and French artworks on loan from four major Russian museums, the exhibition features Henri Matisse’s The Dance (1910) and other works from the legendary collections of Moscow textile merchants Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin.

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