First of all I was not expecting a Frank Gehry–designed building! My jaw dropped! I was saying to myslef oh this one resembles somehow the Walt Disney Concert Hall which I saw in summer of 2019 in Los Angeles. And bingo! This ship-like building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton opened to the public in October 2014. Its aspect is characterized by twelve large glass-and-steel “sails” enveloping a core, named “The Iceberg”, made in white Ultra-High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete.
The Morozov Collection Icons of Modern Art
I would have said this collection brings Hermitage Museum to your feet. Or generally saying many Russian museums as a package including Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and State Tretyakov Gallery… The collection is A MA AZ I N G ! It has French artists including Manet, Rodin, Monet, Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Sisley, Cézanne, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Denis, Maillol, Matisse, Marquet, Vlaminck, Derain and russion ones including Repin, Korovin, Golovin, Serov, Larionov, Goncharova, Malevich, Mashkov, Konchalovsky, Outkine, Saryan and Konenkov.
Collection belongs to Morozov brothers however in 1918, their manufacturing company was taken over by the state and their collection of artworks was nationalised by official decree. When the Nazis invaded Russia in 1941, the paintings were sent to be hidden in the Ural Mountains, where they stayed fairly well-preserved by temperatures that often fell to -40 degrees.
Some family portraits
Portrait of Konstantin Korovin- Valentin Serov, 1891 Self – ALEXANDER Golovin, 1912 Portrait de Varvara Alexéïevna Morozova – Konstantine Makovski, 1884Mika Morozov – Valentin Serov, 1901Portrait Of Yevdokia Morozova – Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, 1908Portrait of Ivan Abramovich Morozov – Konstantin Korovin, 1903‘Portrait of Margarita Morozova‘ – Valentin Serov,1910
Renoir, Cézanne
Child with a Whip – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1885he Portrait of a Chorus Girl – Konstantin Korovin, 1883Les Deux Saltimbanques: l’Arlequin et Sa Compagne – Pablo Picasso ,1960 ‘In the Bar‘ (‘La Bouchon‘) – Édouard Manet, 1878Femmes et fillette dans un intérieur -Paul Cézanne, 1869 and 1871Girl with a Fan – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881The Singer Yvette Guilbert – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1878Head of a Woman – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary – Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1877The Triumph of Ceres – Ker Xavier Roussel, 1911Rural Festival – Ker Xavier Roussel, 1911-1913 Autumn, Fruit-Picking – Pierre Bonnard, 1912Début printemps à la campagne (Early Spring in the Countryside) -Pierre Bonnard – 1912The Mediterranean. Triptych, Saint-Tropez -Pierre Bonnard, 1911Evening in Paris- Pierre Bonnard, 1911Morning in Paris- Pierre Bonnard, 1911Summer in Normandy – Pierre Bonnard, 1912Summer (The Dance) – Pierre Bonnard, 1912Frosty Morning at Louveciennes – Alfred Sisley, 1873 The Big Walnut Autumn Morning Eragny -Camille Pissarro, 1897The garden of Monsieur Hoschedé in Montgeron – Alfred Sisley, 1881At the edge of the forest in Fontainebleau – Alfred Sisley, 1885Paysage – Alexandre Golovine, 1911Etude en vert – Boris Anisfeld, 1906 Early Spring, Little Fauns -Pierre Bonnard, 1947 Waterloo Bridge – Claude Monet, 1903La Grenouillère – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1869Le Boulevard des Capucines en Carnival – Claude Monet, 1873-1874In the Boat – Konstantin Korovin, 1888In the Garden. Under the Trees of Moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
Paul Gauguin
Eu haere ia oe (Woman Holding a Fruit); Where Are You Going? – Paul Gauguin, 1893The Great Buddha – Paul Gauguin, 1899Matamoe (Landscape With Peacocks) – Paul Gauguin, 1892‘Fatata Te Moua (At the Foot of a Mountain) – Paul Gauguin, 1892TE TIARE FARANI (Flowers of France) – Paul Gauguin, 1891Still Life with Parrots‘ – Paul Gauguin, 1902Gossip (Les Parau Parau)– Paul Gauguin, 1891 Café at Arles – Paul Gauguin, 1888Sacred Spring: Sweet Dreams (Nave nave moe) – Paul Gauguin, 1894 Violet Cliffs – Louis Valtat, 1900Road in the Mountains – André Derain, 1907Le séchage des voiles (The Drying Sails) – André Derain, 1905Bay of Naples – Albert Marquet, 1908 “Fishing boats at sea” – Vincent van Gogh, 1888 The Seine at Vernonnet – Pierre Bonnard, 1911
Quarry at Bibémus (Carrière de Bibémus) – Paul Cézanne, 1898, Great Pine near Aix – Paul Cézanne, 1895-1897Bridge over the pond – Paul Cézanne, 1889Bridge over the Marne – Paul Cézanne, 1888The Road to Pontoise – Paul Cézanne, 1875 -1877Orchard in Autumn – Natalia Gontcharova, 1909Sunlight Under the Trees – Louis Valtat, 1907Pomegranate – Martiros Sarian, 1930 Bathers – Paul Cézanne, 1892-1894Flowers – Paul Cézanne, 1902
Men
Self-Portrait – Ilya Machkov, 1911Self-portrait – Pyotr Konchalovsky, 1912George Yakulov -P.Konchalovsky, 1910Self-portrait – Pyotr Konchalovsky, 1910 Smoker – Paul Cézanne,1891-1892Portrait of Ambroise Vollard – Pablo Picasso,1910Smoker- Natalia Goncharova, 1911Young Acrobat on a Ball – Pablo Picasso, 1905Self-Portrait and Portrait of Pyotr Konchalovsky – Ilia Machkov, 1910
Special Van Gogh Room
There was a special room dedicated to Van Gogh. They wanted us to feel like him I guess beause the room was dark and you could feel the sadness being closed to a room. Vincent Van Gogh had voluntarily committed himself to the psychiatric asylum of Saint-Remy-de Provence in 1889. During is monthsof detention he painted The Prison Courtyard. It related the confinement the painter suffered. The man with the dangling arms in the center of the circle of prisoners, he assumes the role of self-portrait, taking on the features and destiny of one condemned to death.
The Prisoner – Vincent Van Gogh, 1890Mikhail LarionovStill Life with a Curtain – Paul Cézanne,1892-1894Still Life with a Kettle – Paul Cézann, 1869 Girl at the piano “L’Ouverture de Tannhäuser” – Paul Cézanne, 1867-68Bottle Skhidama – Henri Metisse, 1896Entrance to the Kasbah – Henri Matisse, 1912Vase with Two Handles (A Bunch of Flowers) – Henri Matisse, 1907Zorah on the Terrace – Henri Matisse, 1913
Window at Tangier – Henri Matisse, 1912 Still Life with Dance – Henri Matisse, 1909Fruits and Bronze – Henri Matisse, 1910Portrait of Ivan Morozov – Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, 1910Early spring in the village – Pierre Bonnard, 1912Seated Woman – Henri Matisse, 1908‘Nude’ -Charles Guérin, 1907,Woman Bather – Henri Manguin, 1906After Bath – Edgar Degas, 1886Temptation, Adam and Eve – Othon Friesz, 1910 In the Studio – Jean Puy, 1912Anis al Djalis, Arab tale – Georges Manzana–Pissarro, 1907Zebras at the watering hole – Georges Manzana–Pissarro, 1906Eternel printemps / Eternal spring – Auguste Rodin,1884Le baiser / The kiss – Auguste Rodin,1886June fille / young woman – Sergei Konenkov, 1914Femme ailéee / woman with wings – Sergei Konenkov, 1913A genoux / On knees – Sergei Konenkov, 1916
Maurice Denise
Eros is Struck by Psyche’s Beauty – Maurice Denise, 1908Zephyr Transporting Psyche to the Island of Delight – Maurice Denise , 1908The Vengeance of Venus – Maurice Denise, 1908 Jupiter Bestows Immortality on Psyche Maurice Denise, 1908Psyche Discovers that Her Mysterious Lover is Eros – Maurice Denise, 1908-1909Psyche’s Kin Bid Her Farewell on a Mountain – Maurice Denise , 1908Cupid Carrying Psyche Up to Heaven- Maurice Denise , 1908The Green Beach, Perros-Guirec – Maurice Denis, 1909
Outside
As you move through this work, the play of reflections between the mirrors creates a kaleidoscopic effect that dematerializes the surroundings.
Inside the Horizon – Olafur Eliasson, 2013Inside the Horizon – Olafur Eliasson, 2013
