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From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 at the Royal Academy

From Russia Exhibition
The Dance (1910) by Henri Matisse is installed at the Royal Academy of Arts. It is the first time that the painting has been shown in Britain. The exhibition was arranged by Sir Norman Rosenthal from the RA (right) and Albert Kostenevich (left), the curator of Russia's State Hermitage museum Photograph: Sarah Lee /Guardian
From Russia Exhibition
The Dance, 1910, by Henri Matisse Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Dryad, 1908, by Pablo Picasso Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Black Square, c1923 by Kazimir Malevich Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
The Bath of the Horse, 1912, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Photograph: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Manifesto of October 17th, 1905, 1911, by Ilya Repin Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Vairaumati Tei Oa (Her Name is Vairaumati), 1892, by Paul Gauguin Photograph: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Smoker, 1911, by Natalia Goncharova Photograph: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) with his nanny, 1906, by Leon Bakst Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Portait of Dr Felix Rey, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh Photograph: The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
Leo Tolstoy Barefoot, 1901, by Ilya Repin Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
From Russia Exhibition
The Muse Inspiring the Poet, by Henri Rousseau Photograph: Pushkin Museum, Moscow/Bridgeman Art Library
From Russia Exhibition
Tsarevich Dimitry, son of the Assassinated Tsar Nicholas, by Mikhail Nesterov Photograph: Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Library
From Russia Exhibition
A gallery assistant in front of The Red Room (Harmony in Red), by Henri Matisse Photograph: Leon Neal /AFP
From Russia Exhibition
Visitors admire Claude Monet's The Pond at Montgeron (left), Haystack at Giverny (centre), and Poppy Field Photograph: Akira Suemori /AP
From Russia Exhibition
A visitor walks past Black Cross, Black Circle and Black Square, by Kazimir Malevich Photograph: Nils Jorgenson /Rex Features
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