🖼 Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th–20th Centuries

ул. Волхонка, 14

A wing on Volkhonka with a collection of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, one of the best in the world.

The gallery opened in 2006 in a wing of the late 18th-century Golitsyn estate.
The core of the collection comes from the merchants Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who bought the Impressionists before they were recognised.
In 1923 the collections were combined into the Museum of New Western Art, with about 500 paintings.
In 1948 this museum was closed in the campaign against formalism, and its paintings were divided between the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.
It holds Claude Monet's Luncheon on the Grass and two of his Rouen Cathedrals.
In the late 19th century the wing was rented out as housing and called the Princes' Court.

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