Migration of Images. Private Collections of Modernism and Avant-Garde and the Search for Cubism in Eastern Europe, in: Per Bäckström - Benedikt Hjatarson eds., Decentring the Avant-Garde. Avant-Garde Studies 30. Amsterdam - New York, 2014, s. 187-196
Abstract
Among the key figures of collecting and merchandising Cubism , especially Picasso and Braque, was Czech art historian Vincenc Kramář. The works of Picasso from 1911-12 are the very core of his collection.
The collections of Sergey Shchukin (1854-1934) and Ivan Abramovich Morozov (1871-1925) were equally important to Russian artists as well for artists who studied in and visited Moscow from time to time. The Russian galleries of Shchukin amd Morozov also had an impact on many Baltic and Polish artists, who saw these collections.
The Russian modersnist collections thus had the sane significance to the local modernist milieu as the Kramář collection had for Czech Cubism, or GöstaStenman's first examples of Picasso, Braque and Derain, shown in his gallery in Helsinki in 1914, which played an importantž role for Finnish artists, especially for Ilmari Aalto.