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The Morozov brothers, a crazy Russian story recounted on arte.fr

2021-10-02T02:44:36.956Z


CRITICAL - A complete portrait of Moscow patrons and collectors, bulimics and precursors. Despite their early disappearance, they leave a collection that has become the treasure of the Pushkin Museum and The Hermitage. Not to be missed on the arte.fr platform until November 24.


A Russian wind is blowing over Paris this fall.

By the chance of postponements due to the Covid, the

"

Morozov Collection"

,

which aligns the masterpieces, opens at the Vuitton Foundation just before the exhibition "Ilya Repin (1844-1930), painting the Russian soul" at the Petit Palais, on October 5.

This breath from the distant East and from an ancient empire where the sun set and rose, is also sweeping away

The Morozov Brothers, patrons and collectors

, not to be missed on the arte.tv platform until November 24.

Picaresque characters

Elisabeth Kapnist's documentary, written with Christian Dumais-Lvowski, begins in the snow, in Abramtsevo, the Russian Barbizon.

It is here, north of Moscow, where painters like Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vroubel or Ilya Repin, musicians and writers embodied a happy colony of artists who wanted to reinvent the spirit of Russian medieval art.

The estate inspired

La Cerisaie

à Tchekhov, his last piece in 1904. As massive as a tenor, Savva Mamontov, patron whose fortune came from

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Source: lefigaro

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