The State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin presents the exhibition «Gustave Fayet and Russian Collectors.» The project will tell the story of the outstanding French collector, patron of the arts, and artist Gustave Fayet. The range of preferences of this major collector of works by Paul Gauguin and patron of Odilon Redon is inextricably linked to the formation of collections of modern Western art by Russian patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The exhibition, which includes iconic works that once belonged to Gustave Fayet and his circle, and are now held in the collections of the Pushkin Museum and the State Hermitage, reconstructs the atmosphere of an intellectual salon of the early 20th century in Paris and Moscow and reflects Fayet’s role in the global art process and in the art market.
A catalogue has been prepared for the project’s opening. The publication includes texts by Alexei Petukhov, the exhibition curator; André‑Marc Deloc‑Fourcaud, the grandson of Sergei Shchukin; and Natalia Semyonova, an expert on the history of collecting, who shared her latest archival discoveries.