From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 at the Royal Academy
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 /GuardianThe Dance, 1910, by Henri Matisse Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg/HandoutDryad, 1908, by Pablo Picasso Photograph: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg/Handout
Black Square, c1923 by Kazimir Malevich Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/HandoutThe Bath of the Horse, 1912, by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Photograph: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/HandoutManifesto of October 17th, 1905, 1911, by Ilya Repin Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/HandoutVairaumati Tei Oa (Her Name is Vairaumati), 1892, by Paul Gauguin Photograph: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow/HandoutSmoker, 1911, by Natalia Goncharova Photograph: State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow/HandoutPortrait of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) with his nanny, 1906, by Leon Bakst Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/HandoutPortait of Dr Felix Rey, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh Photograph: The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts/HandoutLeo Tolstoy Barefoot, 1901, by Ilya Repin Photograph: State Russian Museum, St Petersburg/HandoutThe Muse Inspiring the Poet, by Henri Rousseau Photograph: Pushkin Museum, Moscow/Bridgeman Art LibraryTsarevich Dimitry, son of the Assassinated Tsar Nicholas, by Mikhail Nesterov Photograph: Private Collection/Bridgeman Art LibraryA gallery assistant in front of The Red Room (Harmony in Red), by Henri MatissePhotograph: Leon Neal /AFPVisitors admire Claude Monet's The Pond at Montgeron (left), Haystack at Giverny (centre), and Poppy FieldPhotograph: Akira Suemori /APA visitor walks past Black Cross, Black Circle and Black Square, by Kazimir MalevichPhotograph: Nils Jorgenson /Rex Features
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