The Picassos from the Serguei Chtchoukine collection
Anne Baldassari, curator of the exhibition "La collection Chtchoukine" which was held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton at the end of 2016, looks back for us on "the Picassos of Sergueï Chtchoukine " while waiting to see the works of "The Morosov Collection" at La Fondation Vuitton next May. A wealthy merchant whose social image is intimately linked to a collection of works of art, he began by bringing together Monets and Impressionist works before supporting his Cubist and Fauve contemporaries. "The reasoned poisoning of art by Picasso" created a shock among young Russian artists, including Malevich and Rodtchenko, who then built a new pictorial language that would lead in particular to suprematism. Or how Picasso ignites the fuse of the Russian pictorial revolution…