Recollections of a Picture Dealer
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Recollections of a Picture Dealer

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Recollections of a Picture Dealer

About this book

Celebrity, art merchant, socialite, publisher, and writer, Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939) was one of the most extraordinary figures in 20th-century art. He possessed an uncanny ability to recognize genius in painters — dozens of important artists received valuable commissions and gallery space with his help, and his galleries presented the first one-man shows for such luminaries as Matisse, Cézanne, and Picasso. Vollard's warmth, candor, and intelligence earned him the friendship of a generation of artists and make this memoir an enthralling and often hilarious account of an exciting Golden Age of painting.
Vollard's anecdotal recollections transport the reader to Paris at the turn of the 20th century and the legendary "Street of Pictures," the rue Laffitte, where Vollard lived and worked. Rather than critiquing artists or esthetic movements, Vollard focuses on the human sidelights that made his life as picture dealer so rich and fascinating: his early efforts to sell the works of Cézanne, despite incredible opposition to Impressionism; his dinner parties, whose guests included Renoir, Forain, Degas, Redon, and Rodin; his many portrait sittings for Cézanne, Renoir, Rouault, Bonnard, Forain, and Picasso; his observation on the studios, habits, and personalities of Manet, Matisse, Picasso, de Groux, Signac, and Rousseau; and his encounters with Gertrude Stein, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Mallarmé, and Zola.

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Information

Publisher
Dover Publications
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780486428529
eBook ISBN
9780486142388
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
European Art
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. I - FROM THE ISLAND OF LA REUNION TO THE FACULTÉ DE DROIT IN PARIS
  5. II - ARRIVAL IN PARIS: THE QUARTIER LATIN AND MONTMARTRE
  6. III - A GOLDEN AGE FOR THE COLLECTORS
  7. IV - MY APPRENTICESHIP AT THE UNION ARTISTIQUE
  8. V - I COMMENCE PICTURE DEALER
  9. VI - AT MADAME MANET’S
  10. VII - CÉZANNE AND VAN GOGH
  11. VIII - MY NEIGHBOURS
  12. IX - THE STREET OF PICTURES
  13. X - THE CELLAR
  14. XI - ALFRED JARRY AND GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
  15. XII - CONNOISSEURS AND COLLECTORS—I
  16. XIII - CONNOISSEURS AND COLLECTORS—II
  17. XIV - CONNOISSEURS AND COLLECTORS—III
  18. XV - CONNOISSEURS AND COLLECTORS—IV
  19. XVI - THE STEINS AND OTHER AMERICANS
  20. XVII - GERMAN CRITICS AND COLLECTORS
  21. XVIII - BEFORE MANET’S OLYMPIA AT THE LOUVRE
  22. XIX - THE STUDIOS OF MEISSONIER AND OTHERS
  23. XX - CÉZANNE’S HOME AT AIX
  24. XXI - SOME MORE IMPRESSIONISTS
  25. XXII - TWO SCULPTORS: MAILLOL AND RODIN
  26. XXIII - GEORGES ROUAULT : DOUANIER ROUSSEAU : PICASSO
  27. XXIV - MY PORTRAITS
  28. XXV - MALLARMÉ AND ZOLA
  29. XXVI - LE SAR PELADAN AND THE ROSICRUCIANS
  30. XXVII - STATESMEN AND JOURNALISTS
  31. XXVIII - THE PRIX DES PEINTRES
  32. XXIX - AMBROISE VOLLARD, PUBLISHER
  33. XXX - AMBROISE VOLLARD, AUTHOR
  34. XXXI - THE WAR
  35. XXXII - PAINTING AND THE WAR
  36. XXXIII - MY HOMES: FONTAINE BLEAU—LE TREMBLAY-SUR-MAULDRE
  37. XXXIV - PAINTING AFTER THE WAR
  38. EPILOGUE
  39. INDEX