Sergei Shchukin, the man who helped shape the fate of Matisse and Picasso
The Russian merchant’s legendary art collection is to be reunited in Paris
Wealthy Russian merchant and industrialist Sergei Shchukin began collecting Monet and Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso and other great names in 19th and 20th century art in the 1890s. His contemporaries used to say that Shchukin, the son of a famous Moscow manufacturer and educated in the German town of Gera, had extraordinary taste and always relied on it.
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