Collection of Pushkin Museum


The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, Russia, and is located opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.  The Museum opened to the public in May 1912.  When the Russian capital was moved to Moscow in 1918 the government transferred thousands of works from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to the new capital.  The entire collection of Western art from the Museum Roumjantsev was also added to the collection.  More important Western art was added later from the State Museum of New Western Art and included works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso, Dufrenoy, and Matisse.  Currently the Museum holds a collection paintings, graphics, sculpture, and pieces of applied arts from prominent artists of the nineteenth and tenth centuries. 


1888 Red Vineyard, The Painting Red-Vineyard,-The
1888 Seascape at Saintes-Maries Painting Seascape-at-Saintes-Maries
1888 La Mousmé, Sitting Drawing La-Mousmé,-Sitting
1889 Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey Painting Portrait-of-Doctor-Felix-Rey
1890 Landscape with Carriage and Train in the Background Painting Landscape-with-Carriage-and-Train-in-the-Background
1890 Prisoners Exercising (after Doré) Painting Prisoners-Exercising-(after-Doré)





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."