Titian's La Bella. Woman in a blue dress.

Grand Palais, 11 Octobre 1979 -7 Janvier 1980. Paris, Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux 1979, cm.23,8x21, pp.326, 678 illustrazioni in bianco e nero e a colori, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Testo in francese.

Pfäffikon SZ, Stedamm-Kulturzentrum, 18 juin - 27 août 1978. Commissaire de l'Exposition. Mauro Natale, Genève. Milano - Zürich, Electa Editrice - Fondation Suisse Pro Venezia 1978, cm.23x25, pp.249,(3), numerose ill.in bn.nt. e 11 tavv. a col.ft., legatura ed.in tutta tela, titoli al piatto ant. e al dorso, sopraccop.fig.a colori. Testo in francese.

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, 25 octobre 1976 - 28 février 1977. Paris, Editions des Musées Nationaux 1976, cm.21,5x24, pp.LVII,(1),242,(4), 255 ill. in bn. nt. e 13 tavv. a col. ft., brossura, cop. fig. a colori.

Munich-Residenz, 15 juin - 15 septembre 1958. s.l. (München), Editions Hermann Rinn 1958, cm.15x22, pp.338, 118 tavv.in bn.ft. in append., brossura, cop.fig.a colori. (minimi segni d'uso agli angoli della copertina.)

Evanston, Northwestern University Press 2001, cm.15,5x23, pp.277, con numerosissime illustrazioni sia a colori che in bianco e nero. brossura con copertina figurata a colori. At the age of 23, in 1888, Valentin Serov burst onto the Moscow art scene with his portrait, "Girl with Peaches". Painted in the Impressionist manner, this debut work heralded the change from 19th-century realism to 20th-century modernism in Russia. He quickly became the pre-eminent portraitist of Russia's Silver Age. This text casts the artist's work against the gilded age of turn-of-the-century Russia, an era when wealth and flashy consumption abounded as revolutionary change was taking place on all levels of society. Painting prominent people of the day in business, government, society, the nobility and the arts, Serov created a gallery of Russia's important figures - figures seen with a sharp eye and painted with subtle irony. Yet even when his commissions regularly included such lucrative subjects as the Tsar or captains of industry, Serov's paintings explored a fast-changing society through daring studies of women and probing character studies. Through the early 1900s he continued to learn from and react to new movements in western art, developing a distinctive style until his untimely death in 1911.