The collection of Morozova sends in France in 2020
ARTinvestment.RU   01 августа 2017

Preparation for the exhibition masterpieces from the collection of Mikhail and Ivan Morozov has already begun. After three years of their show in Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton

On a similar scheme from October 2016 to March 2017 in France showed the collection of Sergei Shchukin. The project was a resounding success. And in three years will be submitted no less important collection of Moscow philanthropists and collectors Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. Both these meetings were nationalized after the revolution and formed the basis of exhibitions of the Pushkin Museum, the Hermitage and other museums of the country.

works for the exhibition masterpieces from the collections of Morozov will provide the State Hermitage Museum, State Museum of fine arts. A. S. Pushkin and the State Tretyakov gallery.

Industrialists, Mikhail Abramovich (1870-1903) and Ivan Abramovich (1871-1921) Morozov in the childhood was engaged in art Studio. Later, the love for art grew into a passion for collecting. First in 1894 at the exhibition of the Moscow Association of artists Mikhail Morozov bought two paintings by Konstantin Korovin, and then he was joined by Ivan. He continued the new family tradition, after 1903, the eldest brother died. In early 1917, the insurable value of the whole collection was estimated at 560 thousand rubles. It was about 250 French paintings. The younger frost was going to give the collection to the city, but fate on this account had other plans. In 1918 the enterprise philanthropist and industrialist Morozov were nationalized, the collection is also taken away, and he with his wife and daughter in 1919, managed to emigrate to France.

in the Fall of 2020 in Paris will show works by cézanne, Gauguin, van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Bonnard, Denis, Matisse, Derain and Picasso.

Source: tass.ru