Author: Thomas Krens et al.

Publisher/Date: Guggenheim Hermitage, 2002

Format/Condition: New large format softcover. 164 pages

Description: Celebrating the unprecedented collaboration between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, this catalog presents 40 key masterpieces in the development of Western painting, from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century. Jan van Eyck’s near-photographic Portrait of Jan de Leeuw from 1436, Velázquez’s Infante Philip Prosper (1659), Chagall’s Paris Through the Window (1913), Lichtenstein’s 1965 Grrrrrrrrrrr!! and the other works are presented in large color plates on open white pages.

A section of thumbnails and captions provide details on the individual works, and an essay section provides the histories of the three museums.