The Collector

Successful late-nineteenth century textiles merchant Sergei Shchukin was an early advocate of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, acquiring work by Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. The influence, provocation, acclaim and controversy Shchukin's collection wrought across the Russian art world is looked back on by art historian Natalia Semenova with Shchukin's grandson Andre Delocque. von Semenova, Natalya;Delocque-Fourcaud, André-Marc;