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Louis Vuitton Foundation: the Morozov collection arrives in Paris

The Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris reopens its doors on September 22, 2021 with the exhibition La “La Collection Morozov. Icons of modern art”

Louis Vuitton Foundation: the Morozov collection arrives in Paris

The event will bring together more than 200 masterpieces of French and Russian modern art of the Moscow brothers Mikhail Abramovich Morozov (1870-1903) and Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1871-1921). The exhibition will remain open until February 22, 2020.

Presented for the first time outside of Russia, the Morozov Collection brings together important works by Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Bonnard, Denis, Matisse, Derain and Picasso alongside emblematic artists of the Russian avant-garde such as Vroubel, Malevich, Repin, Larionov, Serov.

Paul Gauguin​​​​​, Eu haere ia oe (Où vas-tu ?) La Femme au fruit, Tahiti, 1893
Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg

Conceived by Anne Baldassari, general curator, the exhibition will unfold this set in an original museography that occupies all the spaces of the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
This event, the second part of the large Icons of Modern Art event, is organized in cooperation with the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow) and the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow).

Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Jeanne Samary or La Rêverie, Paris, 1877
Musée d'Etat des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Moscow


Following the exhibition of the Shchoukine Collection at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in 2016/2017, the Morozov Collection will form another important historical section dedicated to the great Russian collectors of the early XNUMXth century.

Cover artwork: Vincent Van Gogh, La mer aux Saintes-Maries, Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888. Musée d'Etat des Beaux-Arts Pouchkine, Moscow

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