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...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...
...answer was at the heart of the Latin Quarter's latest cause celebre, the case of Georges Rouault, artist, v. the heirs of Ambroise Vollard, dealer. The case history went back to about 1914, when Rouault was an out-at-elbows modernist and Vollard was an up-&-coming dealer, one of the few who bought modern paintings. He gave Rouault a studio in his own house and advanced him 50,000 francs (then $10,000)-thereby obtaining all his work in progress and a lien on future paintings...
...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...