Word: vollard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer was at the heart of the Latin Quarter's latest cause celebre, the case of Georges Rouault, artist, v. the heirs of Ambroise Vollard, dealer. The case history went back to about 1914, when Rouault was an out-at-elbows modernist and Vollard was an up-&-coming dealer, one of the few who bought modern paintings. He gave Rouault a studio in his own house and advanced him 50,000 francs (then $10,000)-thereby obtaining all his work in progress and a lien on future paintings...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...
Drawn originally as illustrations for Flaubert's Temptation of St. Anthony, these shadowy, brooding fantasies in black & white had long lain unpublished in the collection of the famed French dealer Ambroise Vollard, had found their way to the U.S. following Vollard's death in an automobile accident (TIME, July 31, 1939). This was their first public showing...
...Writing of Rouault, the author states, "he would arrive promptly at four, puffing hard, his clothes rumpled, his eyes flashing the message of some thought which trouble him and sought expression. He would sit down heavily, remove his battered gray Homberg. . . He would then launch an impassioned tirade against Vollard or less gens de commerce." Contrast this with a newspaper account of the exhibition and opening. "Pots of yellow and white chrysanthemum lent a festive note, and the guests were served punch and hot bouillon with lrtiny sandwiches. . . Mrs. Wore her coronation gown of blue and silver brocade with bands...
...Paris one morning went Léon Nöel, a member of the Commission, to negotiate with General Alfred von Vollard Bockelberg, the German military governor of the Paris region. Nazis were in no hurry to arrange the transfer. For one thing, they could still detect a faint, sweet odor of republicanism in Pétain's authoritarian regime. Then there was the problem of finding quarters: most of the old Government's buildings in Paris and Versailles were occupied by Germans...