“[Matisse’s] ‘La Danse’, painted in 1910, was one of many works of art confiscated from private collections by Lenin and the Bolsheviks a year after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It belonged to one of pre-revolutionary Russia’s most eminent art connoisseurs, Sergei Ivanovich Shukin, who came from a Russian-Jewish family that made its fortune in textiles.” – The Times (UK)