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An exhibition of impressionist masterpieces from the collections of Russian museums and an exhibition of works from the collection of Ivan Morozov are to be included in Russian Seasons cultural project in France in 2020. The project can have a record audience, Russia’s Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky stated on arriving in Paris with a working visit, the website of the Ministry of Culture reports.
According to Medinsky, the scale of French “Russian Seasons” will be massive. The program will include performances of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters, leading bands and theaters of Russia, as well as exhibitions of the largest museums in the country. Russian museums also intend to show the French art lovers many masterpieces from their collections, which rarely leave Russia.
The minister announced the opening of a large impressionist exhibition from the collections of Russian museums. Medinsky recalled that the previous large Russian exhibition "Icons of Modern Art" two years ago hit the Guinness Book of Records, becoming the largest in the history of France in terms of the number of visitors. More than 1.2 million people saw paintings and sculptures from the collection of the Russian philanthropist Sergey Schukin during for months. The new Russian exhibition can beat this record, the Minister believes.
France also awaits the exhibition of works from the collection of the Morozov brothers. According to Medinsky, the agreement to open the exhibition in October of 2020 was signed in Paris on March 29. The heads of Russian museums which would take part in the exhibition attended the signing of the document. Visitors are going to see the works by Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and other prominent impressionists from the collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery.
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