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...Modern pictures, editions of books and modern prints"-the eight words above Ambroise Vollard's name on his business letterhead make up one of the inn signs of our century. Occasionally, there emerges from the scrum of picture salesmen a dealer with an almost mediumistic sense of the art of his time and place. Genius, of a sort, is needed to pick geniuses, and in the past 75 years fewer than a dozen art dealers, from Kahnweiler to Castelli, have had it. Vollard was their great prototype...
...cluttered gallery on Rue Laffitte in Paris, stacked floor to ceiling with rolled canvases and folios of prints, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse had their first one-man shows. (Cézanne was 53 when Vollard "discovered" him in 1892 by buying five oils at auction for a paltry 900-odd francs.) Buying cheap and selling dear, he got in on the ground floor of Gauguin, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir and Chagall as well. He then ploughed his fortune back into the publication of artists' prints and deluxe editions of texts classical and modern...
Museum of Fine Arts. Through Dec. 8, prints by Pablo Picasso. Etchings and Lithographs, all part of a collection he made in the '80s for critic Ambroise Vollard...
...powerfully as Renoir. This is partly due to the popularity of his work and partly to the unwavering, passionate chauvinism of his feelings about his favorite subject, the nude. Compared with Renoir, even Picasso looks like a feminist. "Look," Renoir explained succinctly to his friend, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, "a painter who has the feeling for breasts and buttocks is a saved...
...CUBIST DECADE: 16. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-1907; 17. Bread and Compotier with Fruit on a Table-1908; 18. After the Ball-1908; 19. Still Life with Liqueur Bottle-1909; 20. Woman with Pears-1909; 21. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard-1909-10; 22. Le Mandoliniste-1911; 23. Ma Jolie-1911-12; 24. Le Torero, Ceret-1911; 25. Still Life with Chair Caning-1912; 26. Still Life-1912; 27. La Suze-1912-13; 28. Still Life with Fruit, Glass, Knife and Newspaper-1914; 29. Green Still Life-1914; 30. Harlequin-1915; 31. Three Musicians...