ST. PETERSBURG, May 5. /TASS/: The State Hermitage Museum is satisfied with the condition of its exhibits from the collection of Russian art patrons Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, returned to Russia after an exhibition in France. They arrived in St. Petersburg on Thursday, and specialists from the Hermitage and the Russian Museum are currently working with them, the official representatives of these museums told TASS.
The Russian Ministry of Culture announced the return of the Morozov collection. The Hermitage provided 65 of its exhibits for the France tour, while the Russian Museum furnished two items.
"The first restoration inspection showed that the state of preservation of the exhibits is good," the Hemitage press service quoted the museum's Director General Mikhail Piotrovsky's interview with TASS. The video, provided to TASS by the museum’s press service, shows boxes with artworks delivered to the Hermitage General Staff building on St. Petersburg’s Palace Square.
The Russian Museum’s comment
The State Russian Museum has received the paintings by Valentin Serov and Ilya Mashkov from the Morozov collection that returned from France, Alla Berezhnaya, who heads the Russian Museum's press service, told TASS.
"The artworks are already in the museum's collections," she said.
Exhibition in Paris
The exhibition "The Morozov Collection. Icons of Modern Art" opened at the Foundation Louis Vuitton on September 21, 2021, with the participation of French President Emmanuel Macron. It featured 67 works from the collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, 65 from the Hermitage, 33 from the Tretyakov Gallery and two from the Russian Museum. Initially it was supposed to end on February 22, 2022, but later it was extended until April.
