Формирование коллекции французского искусства конца XIX – начала XX в. в Эрмитаже с 1918 по 1930 гг.
The Formation of the late 19th and the beginning of 20th century French Art Collection in the State Hermitage museum from 1918 to 1930

Summary/Abstract: After the nationalization of art collections in 1918, the structure of Russian museums’ collections underwent significant changes. For 15 years, the largest museums of Moscow and Petrograd-Leningrad were in a situation of constant relocation of funds: the items from the museum storages and the exposures were transferred to smaller museums, for sales abroad, passed from one collection to another in order to optimize the work of the museum. The present article, devoted to the history of the formation of a new collection of the Western art in the State Hermitage, discusses in detail the period of the first revenues in the museum collection of French painting of the late 19th – the early 20th century. Based on archival documents the author reconstructs the course of negotiations between the Hermitage and the State Museum of New Western Art, and examines the role of such artists as N. A. Tyrsa, V. V. Lebedev, Vl. Sukovand, K. S. Malevich in the formation of the Hermitage collection.

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