The issue of bringing to London the exhibition From Russia: French and Russian Painting Masterpieces of 1870-1925 from collections of the four largest museums of Russia will be finally decided in early January.
      
      We would remind you that the Moscow museum authorities beware that the exhibits might become objects of legal claims on the part of their former owners descendants. The exposition includes masterpieces of Russian and French painting of the late 19th and early 20th centuries from collections of the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, the Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. There are works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, Cezanne, Picasso, Kandinsky, Malevich, Petrov-Vodkin and other artists in it. The highlight of the exhibition is Matisses Dance ordered by Sergei Shchukin in 1909.
      
      The British Embassy has come out with the formal pronouncement stating that the British government will advance the enactment of the law guaranteeing against arrests of pieces of art. The law is expected to be passed in the beginning of January, right upon the return of the Parliament from Christmas vacations. According to the British party, it will allow opening the exhibition on January 26, as planned before.
      
      Source: newsru.com