Забытые герои Монпарнаса

Throughout the 20th century, hundreds of remarkable artists from the Russian Empire worked in France, many of whom grew up in Jewish families. Some of them, like Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine, have become world famous, others are known only to specialists, and a number of worthy masters are threatened with oblivion. Many talented artists died young in poverty or perished in the fires of the Holocaust, their legacy is almost gone. This book, based on a large array of rare materials collected in France, the USA, Israel, Russia and Ukraine, is intended not only to return undeservedly forgotten names to the collective memory, but, mainly, to recreate a complete picture of the Russian/Jewish presence in the artistic life of Paris in the first half of the 20th century, to pay tribute to those who supported artists in need, organized their first exhibitions, gave them work, wrote about them... The heroes of Montparnasse are they too: Berthe Weil and Leopold Zborowski, Paul Guillaume and Jonas Netter , Max Jacob and Waldemar Georges, Wilhelm Ude and Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, Leo, Sarah and Gertrude Stein, Etta and Claribel Cohn, Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, Maxim Vinaver and Sergei Diaghilev, Maria and Mikhail Tsetlin… Rare edition, limited edition!