Expos
• The Morozov Collection
After the triumph of the “Chtchoukine Collection” in 2017, this second chapter of “Icons of modern art” had to bide its time, pandemic obliges. For months, the Vuitton Foundation has been playing the sleeping beauties and keeping the scenography of this historic suite secret, which will reveal, for the first time in Paris, the eye of this other Russian collector of modern art, Ivan Morozov, more young and perhaps wiser than Sergei Shchukin. The Vuitton Foundation brings together in 200 masterpieces of modern French and Russian art the two Moscow brothers Mikhaïl Abramovich Morozov (1870-1903) and his younger brother, Ivan Abramovitch Morozov (1871-1921). The Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, which had dedicated its first exhibition in the summer of 2019 to the latter, associated by art history with Shchoukine,underlined his more classic taste and his bulimia of masterpieces. Paul Gauguin,
Eu haere ia oe (Where are you going?) Or La Femme au fruit
, Tahiti, 1893, will come from the Hermitage.
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