Word: vollard
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...painting had reached the U.S. in the typical roundabout of forgotten masterpieces, after a journey that began in 1909 when Renoir's own dealer, Ambroise Vollard, sold it to a collector from Germany. The picture dropped out of sight, remained in private hands until last year...
...reason to be proud of its acquisition, for the experts seemed agreed that it was certainly one of Renoir's best. As delicate as a watercolor, it showed a buxom girl watching a bare-bottomed little boy as he petted his cat. Renoir never titled it, but Vollard had supplied a painstakingly descriptive one: Woman Guiding a Child's First Steps Toward a Chair on Which There Is a Kitten. The legion, with the blessings of the experts, called it simply Coco and Gabrielle...
...experts quickly dismissed the idea of forgery: Vollard's records amply proved that the work was Renoir's. But who were the girl and the bare-bottomed...
...might well rejoice; Rouault conceived the engravings as long ago as World War I, and prepared them for publication by Ambroise Vollard in 1927. Vollard put off publication, but held on to the plates until he died in 1939. Rouault got them back by court order in 1947, and at last had them published...
...Vollard did not do badly, either. When he died in 1939, at the age of 72, he had not only helped promote his friends to awesome heights; he had also amassed a tidy fortune for himself and one of the world's best collections of impressionist and post-impressionist...