In 1920, collector Ivan Morozov, who had to leave Russia, gave an interview to art critic Félix Fénéon. A few months before his death, at age 49, in the aftermath of a revolution which has just deprived him of his country, his family, his friends and his collection, he tells with emotion the story of this collection which is confused with that of his life. The favorites follow one another, from Cézanne, the favorite artist, to Van Gogh; from Monet to Renoir. We also discover an enthusiasm for Maurice Denis and Pierre Bonnard to whom he has placed important commissions, we encounter exceptional works by Gauguin, few of Picasso, but perfectly well chosen, and a dazzling triptych by Matisse. So much so that today, as at the very beginning of the 20th century, no exhibition,no synthesis of avant-garde French art can be achieved without the masterpieces of the Morozov collection. She had never been seen in her entirety, she had never traveled.
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