“The transportation of all the paintings, graphic works and sculptures to Russia took almost 20 days, and the last transport vehicles crossed the Russian border on May 2”Lyubimova said, quoted by Sputnik.
The Russian minister also informed that the entire collection of the state museums will be on view in Moscow during the summer at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which will open a special exhibition project. For its part, the Tretyakov Gallery also confirmed the arrival of its works of art at the museum.
The exhibition “The Morozov Collection. Icons of Modern Art”held at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris until April 3 and organized in collaboration with the Hermitage, Pushkin and Tretyakov Gallery museums, received more than 1.25 million visitors in its six months of exhibition.
The return of most of the works to Russian soil closes part of the logistical chapter of the land transfer, through several European countries, which was in doubt at one time due to the sanctions ordered by the European Union due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, despite the fact that France agreed to the repatriation of the works, except for three of them.
In numbers, 67 works of art returned to the Pushkin in Moscow, 33 paintings to the State Tretyakov Gallery, 65 to the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and two works to the State Russian Museum.
For its part, two paintings from private collectors belonging to Russian millionaires remain in France due to sanctions, as well as a third piece that belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts in Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), “for security measures.”
Among the paintings that were not returned is the self-portrait painting (1912) by Piotr Konchalovski (1876-1956), considered the “Russian Cézanne” and belonging to millionaire Petr Aven, whose assets are frozen as part of the sanctions adopted by the European Union against Russia.
The second painting is a portrait of Timofeï Morozov painted in 1891 by Valentin Serov (1865-1911), one of the great Russian portrait painters, which was on loan to the Moscow Avant-Garde Art Museum created in 2001 by the Russian businessman Moshe Kantor .
The Morozov Collection, nationalized in 1918, brought together in Paris 200 masterpieces from the French and Russian modern art collection collected by the brothers Mikhaïl (1870-1903) and Ivan Morozov (1871-1921), and includes pieces by famous European artists Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as well as Russian artists Natalia Goncharova, Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Repin, and Valentin Serov, among others.
Source: Ambito
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