Shchukin. Biography of the collection
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Shchukin. Biography of the collection
69.99 €
The official catalog of the exhibition "Shchukin. Biography of the Collection" at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts from June 19 to September 15, 2019. The catalog is available in two separate editions - in Russian and English; Foreword by Marina Loshak, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage, and grandson of S.I. Shchukin.The publication includes not only the works presented at the exhibition, but also all the masterpieces of the Shchukin collection, including paintings by Monet, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Degas and other famous artists; it is not only a catalog of the exhibition, it is a complete catalog of the Shchukin collection! The author is Sergei Shchukin's biographer, doctor of art history, specialist in the history of Russian collecting and scientific consultant of the exhibition Natalia Semenova; Archive documents and photographs, the Shchukin family tree and many other unique materials are included in the book. Sergei Shchukin is rightly considered one of the greatest collectors and patrons of art of the XX century. The future collector followed in his father's footsteps and headed the firm founded by him "K. V. Shchukin and Sons". Ivan Vasilyevich Shchukin was one of the "most brilliant commercial and industrial figures of post-reform Russia". However, Sergei Ivanovich stepped up the merchant ladder higher, receiving in 1894 from the Minister of Finance "for useful activities in the field of domestic trade and industry" the title of commercial counselor. So "a fellow foreman of the Moscow merchant class Sergei Shchukin" was among the gatekeepers of the commercial and financial world of Moscow. Soon the firm "I. V. Shchukin and Sons" led among the buyers of cotton and woolen goods, controlling the conjuncture and assortment of manufactories in Moscow and the province. Turbulent energy and special abilities of Shchukin, a merchant, suddenly found another worthy outlet. Sergei Ivanovich began to collect modern French paintings. After buying in 1897 Claude Monet's painting "Argenteische Lilac" (the first of the paintings of Impressionist painters that came to Russia), Sergei Shchukin began to create a collection of new paintings, which in 1903 with good reason began to be called in Moscow gallery. Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Picasso and, of course, Matisse, whose first patron was Shchukin - this is only part of a long list of geniuses whose works became the property of Shchukin's collection. Today these masterpieces of world painting adorn the halls of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and in June 2019 the two parts of the collection will temporarily reunite in the Pushkin Museum at the exhibition "Shchukin. Biography of the Collection," which will run from June 18 to September 15 this year.
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