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Patricia Railing, Ivan Morozov Talks to Félix Fénéon in 1920, Pp. 9-13 INTERVIEW Ivan Morozov Talks to Félix Fénéon in 1920 In early 1920, Félix Fénéon, the Paris art critic who had championed Neo-Impressionism and Symbolism, talked to the Moscow collector, Ivan Morozov; the interview, “Ivan Morosoff”, being published in the Bulletin de la vie artistique on 15 May 1920. Morozov’s vast collection of late 19th and early 20th century French and Russian painting (including Mashkov, Goncharova, Larionov) had been nationalised following the October 1917 Revolution and was now called the Second Museum of Western Art. 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