Word: vollard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georges Rouault, the 77-year-old French modern whose paintings glow like hot coals, burned up 315 of them last week. He had gotten them back, along with 400 others, from the heirs of Dealer Ambroise Vollard, on a legal technicality (TIME, July 22, 1946). His argument: the dealer was entitled only to his finished pictures, and since he had never signed the pictures, they were unfinished and therefore his own property...
...events nor political ones; it is concerned mainly with the historic freshness in painting that he came across as a young American in Paris 40 years ago. His friend Bernard Berenson, the top authority on Italian art, told him to look at the Cézannes at Dealer Ambroise Vollard's in 1904; soon afterward he discovered Matisse and Picasso. He and Gertrude had just settled down at 27 rue de Fleurus, the address Gertrude later made famous. But according to Leo she brought no pictures home until 1911 or 1912; he himself built up the Stein collection...
Picasso seemed like the last man in the world for the job. In 1937, art dealer Ambroise Vollard was looking for someone to illustrate Buffon's classic, 18th Century Histoire Naturelle. Picasso, who once remarked that "through art we express our conception of what nature is not," had just finished his grotesque, horribly unrealistic Guernica (TIME...
...When Vollard died in a 1939 auto crash, he had 807 unfinished Rouault canvases. Value at present prices, according to Rouault: about $1 million. (Recently an 8 in. by 12 in. Rouault sold in Paris for $3,000.) Aging (75) Painter Rouault went to court to get them back, claimed them as his "intellectual property...
Last week a French court upheld him. The court ruled: the artist is the sole owner of all his work as long as it is unsigned, and he has the right to change or even destroy it. The Vollard heirs were ordered to return the 807 Rouaults to him in a month, or pay him 100,000 francs (now $840) apiece. The court ordered Rouault to pay the heirs a sum yet to be determined to wipe off Vollard's bill. Rouault expects to "finish up" only about 30 of the paintings. Among other things, Rouault has gone increasingly...