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Cézanne to Picasso
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Recollections of a Picture Dealer
Art merchant recounts selling the works of Cézanne; partying with Renoir, Forain, Degas, and Rodin; the studios of Manet, Matisse, Picasso, and Rousseau; encounters with Gertrude Stein, Zola, others. 33 illustrations.
Ambroise Vollard
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Ambroise Vollard, Editeur. Les Peintres-Graveurs, 1895-1913
Vollard's arrival in Paris in 1890 was fortuitously timed. This was a period of opportunity and change. The solemn grandeur of Hausmann's boulevards still dominated the mores of the city, as the Salon dominated the official view of art, but elsewhere signs of a revival abounded. High up in Montmartre the avant-garde had established, amidst the squalor and poverty, an alternative strong-hold. Rodophe Salis's night-club Le Chat Noir had completed a full ten years of existence and the Moulin Rouge was in full swing: repression was beginning to wane. And, outwardly, extraordinary contrasts were beginning to emerge; the strange spectre of Sacré Coeur arising impeccably white above its insalubrio...
