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Disputed Show Opens to Raves

Posted Jan 23, 08 12:00 PM CST in Arts & Living    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – London's Royal Academy opened its blockbuster exhibition of Russian-owned paintings last night, after narrowly escaping cancellation by the Russians last month. Critics agree that the stunner of From Russia is Matisse's 1910 The Dance, which rarely leaves the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. "It blasts any picture near it off the wall," says the Telegraph's critic.

Richard Dorment also praises the "magical" work of Malevich and Kandisky that closes the show, although he is less effusive about the "nosedive" of some of the later Russian figurative painting on display. Guardian critic Adrian Searle also concedes that the quality of the works is "variable," but he sees this as a virtue: "Who wants one damn masterpiece after another?"

Source Daily Telegraph (UK)

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Henri Matisse's The Dance, on loan from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg to the Royal Academy in London.   (Associated Press)
A Royal Academy staff member poses for photographers in front of Henri Matisse's 'The Red Room (Harmony in Red)' during a press preview of the exhibition 'From Russia   (Associated Press)
The Royal Academy, in London.   ((c) currybet)
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