Word: vollard
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These expats were keen to soak up the local culture, but unlike most Florentines, their interests extended beyond city and national boundaries. Fabbri and Loeser became clients of Ambroise Vollard, the foremost art dealer of the time, based in Paris, and one of the few contemporary champions of Cézanne. The painter, who would be recognized after his death as one of the fathers of modern painting, the direct inspiration for Cubism and Fauvism, spent his twilight years living in isolation in Aix-en-Provence, France, scorned by critics and ignored by the public. Outside attention, when it came...
Such rebuffs did not cool the Americans' ardor for Cézanne's work, and by 1913 they had between them amassed the largest collection of Cézannes outside Russia (several of Vollard's best clients were Russian industrialists). Neither man's collection would remain intact. Fabbri plowed much of his fortune into building a Romanesque church in an earthquake-ravaged town. By 1928, he had to sell 13 Cézannes to finance a property deal. In the same year, Loeser died, leaving eight paintings to the White House...