Martin Gayford

Ivan Morozov: the Russian businessman with a passion for the avant-garde

Natalya Semenova recounts how an apparently dull textile magnate became one of the world’s most discerning collectors of post-Impressionist art

Portrait of Ivan Morozov, the great collector of Cézanne, by Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov. Bridgeman Images 
issue 24 October 2020
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  • Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

    Natalya Semenova, translated by Arch Tait

    Yale University Press, pp. 320, £25

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