All the Empty Palaces
The Patrons Who Brought Modern Art to Russia
29 February 2008
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By 1917, Moscow textile merchant Sergei Shchukin had assembled the most important collection of modern Western art in the world, including numerous works by Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso. Yet for more than seventy years he and his fellow collector, Ivan Morosov, were obliterated from the Soviet record. Authors Hilary Spurling, Natalia Semonova and Beverly Kean recount how Kean first uncovered their remarkable story.
In the Reynolds Room; 6.30-7.30pm
