Sergei Shchukin collects
Picassos, Matisses, Monets, Oh My!
Cézanne’s work is what introduces the audience to the gallery in Paris, with paintings such as Blue Landscape.
For Red Room
At first, he passed on Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon for being too shocking. He ended up acquiring it and, over time, +50 of his works.
Gauguin makes his appearance through the dining room in paintings like Aha oé feii?
(Harmony in Red), Matisse was influenced by Shchukin’s textiles.
Shchukin also collected works from Edgar Degas such as La Danseuse dans l’Atelier du Photographe
Shchukin started acquiring paintings from Claude Monet, such as Luncheon on the Grass.