Monday 20 October 2025

From Manet to Cezanne
The Morozof brothers and the Parisian Avant-Garde 
by Rosamund Bartlett

Mikhail Morozov, scion of Moscow's most famous merchant dynasty, became the first Russian to buy a painting by Van Gogh. After he died in 1903, having been unable to curb his life of excess, his younger brother Ivan followed suit, becoming the first Russian collector of Picasso, and commissioning triptychs from both Bonnard and Matisse.  He also amassed eighteen works by Cézanne, his favourite painter. This lecture discusses the brothers' remarkable collections and their interest in contemporary art.

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Dr Rosamund Bartlett

Rosamund is a writer, lecturer and translator whose work ranges across the arts. She completed her doctorate at Oxford and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Brasenose College. Rosamund has written numerous books. She is returning to give this lecture, a sequel to her outstanding talk about Mattise in Moscow earlier this year.