Russian Avant-Garde Art:  Protected from Stalinsim in Ali Baba`s Cave
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Russian Avant-Garde Art: Protected from Stalinsim in Ali Baba`s Cave

Decadent’ Russian Art, Still Under the Boot’s Shadow By ELLEN BARRY Published: March 7 th, Story reprinted from NYT MOSCOW — Later this week moviegoers in New York will learn the strange story of Igor V. Savitsky, an obsessive collector credited with saving tens of thousands of avant-garde artworks from Soviet authorities who forced artists…