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Hardcover, oblong quarto bound in blue cloth and publisher’s dust-jacket. A pristine, brand new copy still in publisher’s shrink wrap. A full-color, 144-page companion publication to the eponymously named exhitbition mounted by the Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens in 2015. “For the first time, a special exhibition at Hillwood will focus on the one of the most ambitious paintings from Makovsky’s boyar series and the path it traveled from St. Petersburg, through Paris, to the United States, where it was received with great enthusiasm. Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar’s Painter offers a new perspective on the painter’s work and its popularity in Gilded Age America, where it satisfied the appetite for dramatic historical stories, exotic settings and costumes, and European art and culture.”