Sergei Shchukin
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Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
1915 portrait
Henri Matisse, The Dance (second version), 1910, 260 x 391 cm, The Hermitage, (Matisse's second version of the painting).
Shchukin's grave in Montmartre Cemetery.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Émile Benoît Matisse was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primari
Sergei Shchukin
…Rousseau; sixteen by André Derain; eight by Albert Marquet; and two by Maxime Dethomas. Shchukin was particularly notable for his long association with Matisse, who decorated his mansion and created one of his iconic paintings, La Danse, specially for Shchukin. La Danse is commonly recognized as "a key point…
Matisse in 1913
Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1895, oil on board, 61.5 x 48 cm, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Musée Matisse
Henri and Amélie Matisse, 1898
Gustave Moreau's Studio, 1894– 1895