A Look Inside the Morozov Collection: How Two Patrons Shook Up the Russian Art Scene

From 1903 onward, the Russian businessman Ivan Morozov made a point of making an annual pilgrimage to Paris, which was then considered the art capital of the world. He had been so thrilled by purchases he’d made of works by Alfred Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet in the French capital that he decided to undertake the 1,800-mile journey each year. When he got there, he barely had to make an effort to locate treasures.
According to dealer Felix Fénéon, Moroz