How to tell the story of the Morozov brothers while keeping intact the emotion aroused by the discovery of Sergei Chtchoukine, his avant-garde genius and his tragic life, in 2016, at the Louis Vuitton Foundation? How to promote these two brothers, Mikhail the flamboyant and Ivan the silent, in a clash that gives flesh to their family but distinct passion? How to pick up the thread of this great Russian novel by focusing on the eye and relying on eight years of accelerated research and historical achievements? This is the whole point of Anne Baldassari, once again at work to explain clearly and precisely the birth of modern art in Russia, from its first collectors and patrons to its traveling artists such as French painters and Paris, capital of the arts, exalt.
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“This exhibition is the counterpart of a diptych. I built the “Morozov” exhibition in relation to the “Shchukin” exhibition that we were all discovering. We entered through the self-portraits room
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