An order of exemption from seizure, renewed by the ministries of culture and foreign affairs in February, is effective until 15 May, the time normally required to ship the art back to Russia. The works owned by Russian museums are protected by French law against seizure, as are those from the Ekaterina Foundation, created by Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, the founder of the construction company Stroyteks. In a sign of the diplomatic negotiations required to organise the show, its catalogue bears a preface signed by presidents Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Putin. Most of the works were lent by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, but some came from private collections. The show, which closed on 3 April and drew more than 1.2 million visitors, featured around 200 Modern masterpieces by the likes of Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso that were collected in the early 1900s by the Russian textile magnates Mikhail and Ivan Morozov. As the war in Ukraine rages, France is taking steps to ensure the safe return to Russia of the dazzling Morozov collection, the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris since last September.
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