Serov

They were both workers at the Nadezhdinski Metallurgical Plant in Serov, a Russian city in the Urals.

The Serov painting is owned by the Museum of Avant‑Garde Mastery, the name for a collection of artworks belonging to Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor.

The show begins in the basement, with nearly two dozen pictures of the Morozov family, including several compelling portraits by the Russian painter Valentin Serov.

Ivan, whose best portrait by Serov appears later, among the Matisses, was more businesslike and Muscovite, though no less experimental in his artistic tastes.

In a report handed over to Stalin on June 30, 1945, the Commissar of State Security Serov wrote: