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The Morozov show, like the Shchukin before it, offers the chance to see something incredibly rare for any museum: art history in the making. “Your first visit will probably elicit another, less intellectual reaction: dumbstruck awe.” “The history of collecting, the development of painterly style, the changing fortunes of individuals and nations-you will think about all these things on your second go-through,” stated the New York Times review of the Shchukin opening. In scale, content, and ambition, the exhibition is the follow-up to “The Shchukin Collection,” which pulled in 1.3 million visitors to the foundation four years ago, including New York collectors who jetted over to Paris just to see it. Spread out over the entire Frank Gehry–designed building in Paris, the show celebrates the astonishing modernist paintings by, among others, Cézanne, van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Monet, Matisse, and Picasso that were assembled by Mikhaïl Abramovich Morozov (1870–1903) and his brother, Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1871–1921).
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“It is just extraordinary.”Ĭlaverie is giving an insider’s look at the Vuitton Foundation’s “ Icons of Modern Art: The Morozov Collection,” which opened this month. There are 200 works and 200 masterpieces,” says Jean-Paul Claverie, who for more than two decades has been the cultural adviser to Bernard Arnault, the chairman and CEO of LVMH.