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Indepth Arts News:
"Stroganoff"
2000-02-19 until 2000-05-31
Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR,
USA United States of America
Stroganoff is one of the most familiar names in
Russian history, that of an extraordinary family
whose impact over five centuries included
aggressive entrepreneurship as well as social
vision and patronage of the arts. In February
2000, an exhibition of approximately 250
treasures collected by the Stroganoff family will
make its international debut at the Portland Art
Museum.
The exhibition includes icons
and antiquities, palace furnishings and paintings of the greatest European
masters from Botticelli to Poussin. These will be arrayed as they were
in the Stroganoff Palace, one of the grandest 18th century buildings in
St. Petersburg. The exhibition, organized by the Portland Art Museum,
will be shown at only two venues in the United States, as well as at the
Musee des arts des coratifs, Palais du Louvre, and at the
world-famous Hermitage Museum. Baroness
Helene de Ludinghausen, a Stroganoff descendent, has
guided Portland Art Museum director John Buchanan, through the labyrinth
of galleries and reserves of The
State Hermitage and The
State Russian Museums to identify works of art acquired, sponsored
or commissioned by members of her family throughout five centuries. Russian
curators and museum directors have joined in the effort to bring together
a visual saga of a family s involvement in art.
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