Word: vollard
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...cats at every opportunity yet lunch together nearly every day. For the first time last week New York had a chance to appreciate fully what great gifts these cantankerous friends have brought the world of art. In the Knoedler Gallery the first selection from the fabulous collection of Ambroise Vollard ever to leave France went on exhibition. Farther down the street Artist Henri Matisse's art-dealing son Pierre proudly showed 20 sombre impressive canvases by Georges Rouault, the largest single showing of his oil paint ings ever held. Hulking, testy Ambroise Vollard was born in the Isle...
...Fifi Vollard would not then, as he does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew...
Like the great Spring salons, this exhibtion gives its high place of honor to a retrospective assemblage of works by the leading men of yesterday-Cezanne (the large Joueurs de Cartes owned by M. Vollard, and reproduced in his monumental Biography), Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Courbet and Bazille, together with a magistral El Greco thrown in to give historical perspective...