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Avant-garde Russian artworks exhibiting for first time abroad

By Dmitry Rashnitsov
The Louis Vuitton Foundation, shown during its inauguration in Paris in 2014, will house an exhibit next year that will include some avant-garde works that have never been shown outside Russia. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI
The Louis Vuitton Foundation, shown during its inauguration in Paris in 2014, will house an exhibit next year that will include some avant-garde works that have never been shown outside Russia. File Photo by David Silpa/UPI | License Photo

PARIS, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A collection of masterpieces from some of Russia's avant-garde artists will be on display for the first time outside the country with a new exhibit in Paris.

The works, which include the collection of Russian industrialist Sergei Shchukin from the 1890s, will be shown at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris for four months starting Oct. 20. The exhibit is part of a Franco-Russian cultural tourism program.

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Works from Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, Mikhail Larionov, Vladimir Tatlin, Liubov Popova and Olga Rozanova will be on loan from State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, according to The Art Newspaper Russia.

The curator of the exhibition is Anna Baldassare, and the historical adviser is Andre-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, grandson and biographer of Shchukin, according to the Donetsk newspaper Shakhty.

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