Word: pellerins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, to the French, the sale was an irreparable loss of national patrimony. Both the Philadelphia Bathers and the National Gallery's new acquisition were sold from the collection of a staunch Gaul, the late Auguste Pellerin, margarine magnate and one of the original collectors of Cézanne. But French fury focused on Culture Minister André Malraux, who has had the power since 1961 to instigate the refusal of export permits for outstanding works of native art. "Doesn't he like Cézanne?" asked Critic Pierre Cabanne in the weekly Arts. "This painting belonged first...
Consolation Prize. Actually, of course, the painting belonged to the Pellerin family, which has already given five Cézannes to the Louvre (which has a total of 26). To sweeten the deal that allowed The Bathers to leave France, the Pellerins gave still another Cézanne, an 1868 portrait of a minor artist, Achille Emperaire, whose name is oddly stencilled on the canvas. Said a Culture Ministry official: "One would say that one was a counterpart to the other." Few Frenchmen were satisfied by what they thought a paltry pre-impressionist consolation prize by a man who laid...