Morozov
The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300267037,
Yale University Press,
September 2022
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 29 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 29 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.
A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezann...
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Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
ISBN: PB: 9780300254815,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...
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