Homocysteine: The Secret Killer by Jack Challem, Victoria Dolby

Recently it became known that for nearly fifty years the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia has held in storage a major trove of artworks from German private collections. Taken to the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, these masterworks had not been seen and were generally thought to have been lost or destroyed.<P>In addition to seventy-four important Impressionist and Post-impressionist paintings were the eighty-nine drawings featured in this book. Among the artists represented are: <BR>-- Francisco de Goya<BR>-- Honore Daumier, Paul Signac, Paul Cezanne<BR>-- Eugene Delacroix, J.-A.-D. Ingres, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec<BR>-- Jean-Francois Millet, Adolph von Menzel, Thomas Rowlandson<BR>-- Emil Nolde, Alexander Archipenko<BR>-- Vincent van Gogh<P>Here is a chance to view these long-lost masterpieces, presented with an illuminating commentary, placing each drawing within the context of the artists body of work and citing its provenance and relevant literature.

Author: Jack Challem, Victoria Dolby

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 112

Publisher: Keats Pub

Publication Date: 1997-10-01