Irina Antonova obituary

Director of the Pushkin Museum in Moscow who ensured that a wider range of art was seen in an international contextIrina Antonova, who has died at the age of 98, spent more than half a century as director of the renowned Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. A passionate exponent of the close links between Russian and western European culture, she expanded the museum’s display of impressionist and modernist artworks, many of which had been kept hidden in the vaults by earlier directors. P