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A blockbuster show at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, on the outskirts of Paris, has been seen by more than 1 million people since it opened in November. Known as the, it includes paintings by Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir and Van Gogh, as well as some of Russia’s most renowned painters.
Jean-Paul Claverie, a special adviser to Bernard Arnault, chair of LVMH, a luxury conglomerate that created and runs the Louis Vuitton Foundation, said in a telephone interview that the curators from three of Russia’s major museums, who would normally oversee the works being removed, may not be able to travel easily to France because of ever-changing restrictions on flights leaving Russia.
As the war in Ukraine continues, museums across Europe are having to grapple with a range of questions – logistical, moral and diplomatic – about how they should deal with their Russian counterparts. That includes working out how to safely return artworks and what to do with future exhibitions that are meant to involve Russian loans.
in Rome, on loan from the Hermitage until May 15, said the U-turn was perhaps “convenient” for Russia, since it was hard to see how the paintings could be returned at the moment.The Picasso had travelled through Ukraine by truck on its way to Rome, Curi said, adding that “it would have been very difficult from a logistical point of view” to make that return journey now.
Those moves are having an impact, with shows being cancelled and exhibition tours to Russia stopped. Karina Iwe, a curator at the State Archaeological Museum in Chemnitz, Germany, said that for over two years she had been working on an exhibition on body art, scheduled to open April 1, the highlight of which was to be a Siberian horseman’s preserved body, covered in tattoos. The Siberian branch of Russia’s Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography had approved the loan.
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