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It is unlikely to find in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s oeuvre a work that resembles this still life and it is almost impossible to determine its subject: is it a vase? A lamp? A piece of fruit? A reproduction of this symmetrical composition that recalls Antique Roman frescos was included in Marc Edler and Albert André’s L’Atelier…

In 1908 in Paris, two one-man exhibitions celebrated the work of Kees Van Dongen: one at Galeries Kahnweiler in March, the other at MM. Bernheim Jeune in November/December. At MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Van Dongen showed 89 works: 64 paintings, which appeared dated from 1892 to 1902 and by chronological order in the catalogue, 11 watercolors, 1…

On December 12, 1903, Jean-Pierre Hoschedé (who became Claude Monet’s step-son when Monet wedded his mother Alice Hoschedé in 1892) married Suzanne Costadau at Monet’s home in Giverny. The host seemed to have left nothing up to chance for the wedding reception. This postcard, with a “Monsieur Claude Monet” header, shows again how much the…

In 1899, while examining Edouard Manet’s Jeune femme voilée at the home of the collector Charles Deudon (1832–1914), Pierre-Auguste Renoir alluded to an “ugly veiled woman” without identifying her (letter dated February 5, 1899 to Paul Durand-Ruel). Renoir did not recognized his close friend Berthe Morisot, who had passed away three years earlier. Yet in…

This family album comes from the archive of Paul Ferdinand Gachet (1828–1909), a French doctor, a collector and friend of Cézanne and Van Gogh, but also an amateur artist who painted under the pseudonym Paul Van Ryssel. The album was organized, annotated and augmented by his son Paul-Louis Gachet (1873–1962), a painter and sculptor who…

“These sketches are what he likes best, that’s where he puts all of himself, and deploys all of his audacity.” Albert André, 1925. It is by examining the photographs made from the glass plates found in the archives of Ambroise Vollard, one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s last dealers, that we can find a number of canvases…

Henri Rousseau’s “Aztec landscapes”are known to stir his viewers’ imagination thanks to their fascinating strangeness. But who knew that Rousseau also composed songs, piano pieces, compositions for orchestra, and received an award from the Académie littéraire et musicale de France for La Valse à Clémence, a violin piece he wrote as an homage to his…

To this day, much remains to be uncovered on collaborationism, art looting, and the surprising boom in prices during the World War II art market. With the arrival of German buyers on the market, many art dealers attempted to turn a profit even if this meant sliding towards illegality. Belgian gallerist Raphaël Gérard was one…