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Sergei Shchukin

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425: 65: 416:. In 2008, the families of Shchukin and Morozov made efforts to compel Russia to provide them with “reasonable compensation,” which become an international legal and political issue. The families refused an offer from the British Royal Academy of £5,000 for each family in exchange for their promise not to make claims on the paintings while they were on loan to the Royal Academy, which was displaying the two collections in London. 424: 350: 166:, a self-made Moscow merchant, and his wife Ekaterina Shchukina, née Botkin, the daughter of an established family of merchants. I.V. Shchukin and Sons Trading Company became one of the largest manufacturing and wholesale companies in Russia. 454:
and other museums. It was his personal taste. Perhaps he heard foreshocks that would change the world. Such a collector could appear only in a country that awaited a revolution. He collected art that prefigured the global cataclysms.
380:, the government appropriated his collection (decree of the Council of the People's Commissioners, signed Lenin, 8 November 1918) while Shchukin escaped to Paris, where he died in 1936. His mansion in Moscow became the 388:. Eventually, in 1928, the two sections were merged and exhibited in the former Ivan Morozov mansion at Prechistenka, 21. In 1948 the State Museum of New Western Art was closed down by a decree signed by 701: 342:
and major landscapes, but some key pieces of the Blue and Rose periods as well. In 1909, Shchukin opened his home on Sundays for public viewings, introducing French
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built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several impressionist masterpieces, while his brother
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due to its allegedly bourgeois, cosmopolitan and wrongly oriented artworks. The two collections were randomly divided between the
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24 June] 1854 – 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French
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In the autumn of 2016, the exhibition "Icônes de l'art moderne. La collection Chtchoukine", opened at the
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Shchukin made his first art purchases following a trip to Paris in 1897, when he bought his first
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is commonly recognized as "a key point of career and in the development of modern painting".
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of the Tahitian period, which were hung in his dining room in the manner of an orthodox
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for Shchukin as part of a two-painting commission, the other important painting being
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assembled "Moscow's best collection of Old Masters," which eventually entered the
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Shchukin's art collection has been jointly displayed with the collection of
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There were several art collectors in the Shchukin family. Sergei's brother
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The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
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Shchukin was particularly notable for his long association with
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He started to collect unpopular art, which was snubbed by the
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Shchukin's portrait by Matisse, from the Metropolitan Museum
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Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was born on 6 July [
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Shchukin died on 10 January 1936 in Paris and is buried in
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24 June] 1854 in Moscow, one of ten children of
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Kozlov, Konstantin Akinsha and Grigorij (1 April 2008).
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Greenwood Press. p. 114. 208:paintings, including the iconic 190:, also collected art and books. 382:State Museum of New Western Art 323:(1909) is in the collection of 697:Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 624:. Yale University Press, 2018. 1: 363:1910, 260 x 391 cm, The 32:Eastern Slavic naming customs 545:Clement, Russell T. (1996). 523:. Retrieved 22 October 2016. 346:painting to the Muscovites. 667:20th-century art collectors 662:19th-century art collectors 584:"Fighting for Their Rights" 533:Sergey Shchukin and Others. 506:Sergei Ivanovitch Shchukin. 496:, 15 October 2016, pp. 8-9. 394:Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts 164:Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin 718: 672:Businesspeople from Moscow 518:Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin. 508:Retrieved 22 October 2016. 359:The Dance (second version) 295:, specially for Shchukin. 30:In this name that follows 29: 241:Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey 135: 128:Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin 62: 57:Sergey Ivanovich Shchukin 461:Louis Vuitton Foundation 325:The Museum of Modern Art 256:Ivan Abramovitch Morozov 138:; 6 July [ 110:, French Third Republic 547:Four French Symbolists 457: 433: 368: 448: 427: 352: 154:Early life and family 136:Сергей Иванович Щукин 428:Shchukin's grave in 408:Compensation efforts 372:After the revolution 438:Montmartre Cemetery 430:Montmartre Cemetery 186:. 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Index

Sergei Schukin
Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name

Moscow
Paris
Art collector
Russian
O.S.
Impressionist
Post-Impressionist
O.S.
Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin
Pyotr Shchukin
Dimitri Shchukin
Pushkin Museum
Ivan
Monet
Moscow
Monet
Lady in the Garden
Renoir
Cézanne
Mardi Gras
Van Gogh
Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey
The Red Vineyard
Ivan Abramovitch Morozov
Gauguin

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