French authorities have detained two paintings from the collection of Morozov, which participated in the Fondation Louis Vuitton exhibition in Paris. According to Meduza, these are paintings by Pyotr Konchalovsky and Valentin Serov..

According to Le Monde, Konchalovsky's " And the newspaper Le Figaro claims that in the second case we are talking about a portrait of Margarita Morozova, which Serov painted in 1910.

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It is alleged that the Konchalovsky painting is owned by Russian billionaire Pyotr Aven, who, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, was on the EU sanctions list. France's culture ministry said the painting will remain in the country "

Serov's painting was presented for exhibition by the Moscow Museum of Avant-Garde Art. The president of the museum is the billionaire Vyacheslav Kantor, he is close to the president of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin. Kantor has been under EU sanctions since April 8.

The French Ministry of Culture reported that the second canvas belongs to the Dnipro Art Museum, one of the oldest museums in Ukraine.. The ministry said the painting would remain in France “until the situation in the country allows for the creation of conditions for a safe return.”.

The exhibition of works from the Morozov collection was held in Paris from September 22, 2021 to April 3, 2022.

It presented about 200 works by Gauguin, Van Gogh, Matisse and other authors. Since most of the collection belongs to Russian state museums, the French authorities will return the paintings to Russia in the coming days..

Recall that the Finnish customs detained three trucks with paintings from Russian museums at the border. The cargoes were detained on April 2 and 3, the trucks contain paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage and other museums of the aggressor country.